IFTF's Future Now: links for 2005-09-03

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The Institute for the Future is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as technology and society, health and health care, and global business trends.

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IFTF's Future Now is a group weblog, founded by Institute research director Alex Soojung-Kim Pang in September 2003. Its contributors include IFTF researchers interested in emerging technologies, the future of Asia, and the social and economic impacts on new technologies; IFTF corporate affiliates; academic partners; and members of the Innovation Lab, a Danish futures group with offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen. A complete list of contributors is available here.

September 03, 2005

mediacup@teco

"The MediaCup is an ordinary coffee cup augmented with sensing, processing and communication capabilities... to collect and communicate general context information in a given environment."

(tags: ubicomp digital/physical)
Smart Shelf @ TecO

"SmartShelf is a shelf that is able to be aware of items standing on him, on the position of the items and on certain activity of these items."

(tags: RFID ubicomp digital/physical)
The digital home | Science fiction? | Economist.com

Technology firms are pushing a futuristic vision of home entertainment not because consumers are desperate for it but because they themselves are

(tags: business convergence smart_home)

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