Theme 8: Tomorrow's World - Zeitgeist Europe 2010

When it comes to technology, 'look and feel' matters - advanced functionality is worthless if too complex to master; sleek design is pointless if it isn't also enjoyable to use. As our devices get more complex, the way we use them needs to become more intuitive. In this session we will hear from those at the forefront of ushering in the next generation of technologies which promise to transform the way we interact with the world.

Professor Andreas Dengel (Scientific Director, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence)
JP Rangaswami (Chief Scientist, BT Group)
Maarten Lens-FitzGerald (Co-Founder, Layar)
Kai Huang (Co-Founder, Guitar Hero)

Moderated by Evan Davis (Presenter, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme)

***Please note that all the videos feature YouTube's new Captioning feature. To turn this off or on, simply click the 'cc' button in the bottom right corner of the player. As this is a brand new technology, there may be a few syncing slips - please bear with us as we work to perfect***

[weavehole]

@NiclasTimle89

hehe

Not a problem, thanks for coming back to me.

:D

[weavehole]

44:14 JP Rangaswami: (Inaudible)

Any ideas??

[weavehole]

Okay, so who's going to invent the game that augments your high street to look like an alien world so you can run around with your mates shooting members of the public/aliens?
Could be messy.

[FranklinLeeVanPelt]

This and of course "The Matrix" and "Blade Runner". cool

[weavehole]

@NiclasTimle89

Errrm...

....geezer, when i wrote "you'd" in the previous post I didn't mean YOU in particular. I meant everyone. It was a supposed to come across as a pseudo-self-deprecatory line.

I guess it didn't.

I'm guessing (British) English isn't your first language so no worries fella.

fyi "Peeeow" is the sound you make when pretending to have a laser gun. jiydr

:)

[hydzior]

@Silentsam7532 looking on japan now ... hmmmm ... ;]

[AceObrin]

@NakedCreep Advertisement is probably the least useful application of the technology. Informational awareness, including current data and past history, is a much more exciting and potentially useful one. I.e., info awareness is an application that can contribute to the quality of everyday life, which as far as I've been able to tell, is something that advertisements have never done.

[stevenk]

he sounds like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers in his "layar" hahahaha

[NiclasTimle]

@weavehole ops, now I feel preaddy bad :P. No it's not my first language. Sry about the last comment..

[NiclasTimle]

@weavehole ins't that kind of fail. Almost sounds like the Matrix. Atleast I think it sounds like it