Information is a Material (Mobile Monday talk transcript)

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We have passed the era of Peak MHz. The race in CPU development is now for smaller, cheaper, and less power-hungry processors. As the price of powerful CPUs approaches that of basic components, how information processing is used—and how to design with/for it—fundamentally changes. When information processing is this cheap, it becomes a material with which to design the world, like plastic, iron, and wood. This vision argues that most information processing in the near future will not be in some distant data center, but immediately present in our environment, distributed throughout the world, and embedded in things we don't think of as computers (or even as "phones").This talk will discuss what it means to treat information as a material, the properties of information as a design material, the possibilities created by information as a design material, and approaches for designing with information. Information as a material enables The Internet of Things, object-oriented hardware, smart materials, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent environments.

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Mike KuniavskyMobile Monday

AmsterdamNovember 8, 2010

INFORMATION IS A MATERIAL

PEAK MHZ

$1500* $0.50

* CPI Adjusted to 2008, original price: $900

1989 2010

16MIPS 640X480 24-BIT LCD VIDEO CONTROLLER USB 2.0 24 A/D CHANNELS (FOR AUDIO AND I/O) CAPACITIVE SENSING (FOR MULTI-TOUCH) 1 CM SQUARE $5 (IN QUANTITY)

PIC24FJ256DA210 PRODUCT FAMILY

PART 1: DESIGN PROPERTIES OF INFORMATION

AUTOMATICALLY SENSE THE WORLD

AUTONOMOUSLY ACT ON THE WORLD

REMEMBER

REPEAT EXACTLY

REPEAT EXACTLY

COMMUNICATE

CREATE COMPLEX BEHAVIOR

CREATE COMPLEX BEHAVIOR

ENCODE KNOWLEDGE

PART 2: USING INFORMATION AS A MATERIAL

OBJECT-ORIENTED HARDWARE

BLINKM

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SMART THINGS

SMART THINGS

INFORMATION AS DECORATION

INFORMATION AS DECORATION

INFORMATION AS DECORATION

INFORMATION AS DECORATION

HEIRLOOM ELECTRONICS

SERVICE AVATARS

SERVICE AVATARS

SERVICE AVATARS

SERVICE

AVATARS

NETFLIX AVATARS

INFORMATION SHADOWS

INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS

ALL DESIGN IS A NEGOTIATION WITH MATERIALS

Mike Kuniavsky@mikekuniavskymikek@thingm.com

ISBN: 978-0-12-374899-7