WideTag » Spime http://www.widetag.com RealTime, Social, Green Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:04:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Conversation with Bruce Sterling on spimes http://www.widetag.com/2008/05/01/conversation-with-bruce-sterling-on-spimes/ http://www.widetag.com/2008/05/01/conversation-with-bruce-sterling-on-spimes/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 08:06:04 +0000 David Orban http://www.openspime.com/2008/05/01/conversation-with-bruce-sterling-on-spimes/ A few days ago we had the pleasure of a long Italian dinner, and of an after dinner on-camera conversation with Bruce Sterling, writer, speaker, futurist, and inventor of the word spime. Posted in parts 1, 2, and 3 online*, the video does not only talk about spimes and their meaning, but also covers other interesting and important elements of our changing technological landscape, and their impact on society.

Bruce is as always very eloquent, passionate, and sometimes controversial in what he says, but always engaging!

*This 10 minute limit on YouTube which does not apply to everybody bothers me. If you know how to tell Google that you only want to publish meaningful videos of your own, without having to chop them up in many pieces, please let me know…

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We had the pleasure of a nice conversation with Vernor Vinge in San Diego about spimes, OpenSpime, and what he thought about the impact of the wider diffusion of these technologies on our society:

]]> http://www.widetag.com/2008/04/01/conversation-with-vernor-vinge-on-spimes/feed/ 0 What is a spime? http://www.widetag.com/2008/02/21/what-is-a-spime/ http://www.widetag.com/2008/02/21/what-is-a-spime/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:04:20 +0000 David Orban http://www.openspime.com/2008/02/21/what-is-a-spime/ The word spime has been coined by Bruce Sterling from the contraction of the two terms space and time to express the nature of a new class of objects, which are aware of where they are, and when they are on the planet. This awareness is achieved through the universal inclusion of global positioning functionality, coupled with the sensing of some parameter of the environment, and a means of recording and communicating the set of data.

Spimes are the foundation of a new global structure, the Internet of Things, where the value of the network arises from the autonomous communications objects, without the necessity of human intervention.

OpenSpime Inc. is grateful to Bruce for having graciously conceded the permission to use his term for our operations!

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