Ultimately it’s all atoms with lots of nothing in between – Thanks LR.
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As a result of the Enable conference in Vienna last month I wrote a brief piece on innovation for the Austrian Press Agency APA. Thom
as Fundeneider and Markus Peschl moderate a special feature on “Innovating Innovation” and were also the organizers of the Enable Conference. Thank you for inviting me to contribute.
22.04.2010Â Â THEMA | Innovation ist eine Frage der “rechten” Einstellung
Es fehlt an Innovation. Wir brauchen mehr Innovation. Jemand muss da dringend etwas machen. Das unbestimmte Gefühl, technologisch, gesellschaftlich aber auch individuell auf der Stelle zu treten und Existierendes zu replizieren statt Neues zu schaffen, lässt sich auch bestätigen. [more]
L’Homme qui plantait des arbres -Giono
Hans recommended this movie – this is a very good version.
I’ll be speaking at the 3rd ZukunftsWebinar (webinar for the future) produced by Zukunftsweb, an organization based in Vienna, working on semantic Web models and next generation Internet solutions. The topic of the Webinar is “Neue Kulturtechniken im Web” - roughly translated “new cultural technologies on the Web”. Traditionally understood as reading / writing / mathematics – there mat be new human cultural technologies emerging from a digital network. We’ll see. I will prepare a brief introductory statement and look forward to the conversation with Jana Herwig, a media researcher based in Vienna, who also moderates the event and Corinna Bath, PhD, researcher in Web sciences at the Humboldt-University Berlin with a focus on gender-specific issues of the Semantic Web.
Register at www.zukunftsweb.at/webinare/webinar-0210
Connect live on Feb 25 at 1530 hrs UTC (Vienna 16:30, San Francisco 7:30 AM):
The discourse will probably happen in German; I will try to post part of my contributions in English on the blog.
The Lift@Austria Enable! conference is shaping significantly different from your “usual” convention. The team is working hard to enable all participants to experience an innovative and creative environment. After all that’s the topic of the event. The event takes place in a factory building of a company developing equipment for bartenders and some plastic parts. So this is going to be an interesting venue.
In addition to giving one of the keynotes on day 2, I will also contribute to a workshop on “metamorphoses”. That’s the title the conference organizers came up with. I’m not sure if the title should be Metamorphosis – a term is usually only used for butterflies and other animals that change in form and in a variety of art pieces including Kafka’s “Die Verwandlung” [ see Wikipedia for disambiguation] or Metamorphoses by Ovid et al. Vladimir Nabokov [Wikipedia] [Zembla], who was a Entomologist as well as a professor for literature and a world-class writer – well versed in all sorts of metamorphoses would be the right person to ask about butterflies and human change.
I submitted a first piece for discussion for the metamorphoses workshop: “For a Change – take a Risk” that is also available here as a pdf: FBrody – Metamorphoses .
UPDATE: The Lift Enable! conference program has been posted and the newest version of my abstract is here
Post a comment if you are planning to participate or interested in discussing the topic in general.
The conference blog is here.
