Web Directions

Mark Pesce — Closing keynote: This, that, and the other thing

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• By:jessie
• June 19, 2008
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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 4.05pm.

• Session tran­script
• Audio record­ing of session
• Presentation videos
• Session descrip­tion
• About Mark Pesce

Presentation videos

Opening video:

Video intro­duc­ing part 2 (at 9:30 min­utes in):

Video intro­duc­ing part 3 (at 19:32 min­utes in):

Session descrip­tion

This is what it feels like to be hyper­con­nected: a new kind of com­mu­nity – per­va­sive, con­tin­u­ous, yet strangely tense and ten­u­ous, like a bal­loon inflated to the point of burst­ing. The lim­its of the neo­cor­tex meet­ing the ampli­fier of the Human Network. That cre­ates unique oppor­tu­ni­ties: we can come together at a word, self-​​organize around or against a blog post, a live-​​streamed video, an auto­mated reply from a face­less, rent-​​seeking orga­ni­za­tion. Nothing can stop us. We can’t even stop our­selves. But what do we want? And the other thing? You’ll need to be at Web Directions South, for the clos­ing keynote, if you want to find out.

About Mark Pesce

Known inter­na­tion­ally as the man who fused vir­tual real­ity with the World Wide Web to invent VRML, Mark Pesce has been explor­ing the fron­tiers of media and tech­nol­ogy for a quar­ter of a cen­tury. The author of five books and numer­ous arti­cles, Pesce has writ­ten for WIRED, Feed, Salon, PC Magazine, and The Age.

For the last three sea­sons, Pesce has been a pan­elist on the hit ABC show The New Inventors. From 2003 to 2006, Pesce chaired the Emerging Media and Interactive Design Program at the world-​​renowned Australian Film Television and Radio School. In February he received an appoint­ment as an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, and has gone on to found FutureSt, a Sydney media and tech­nol­ogy consultancy.

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