JUST THINK

If you haven’t seen this then you just must, and all the way through. This is right around the corner and if you have seen the Microsoft movie below then you will see just how quickly this is all moving. Just Think!

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

If you are at all interested in the power of visualization to inspire, explain and articulate in a way that traditional media can’t then check this. And find out what you probably always wanted to know about why we arrive where we are today.

Video: Future Vision Montage
Make up your own minds?
Microsoft has put together a concept video showing what the world could look like in another 10 years. The Future Vision Montage shows a world where face to face communication is easier thanks to video walls that let students in the US interact with children across the globe [...]

The Art of Data Visualization
There is no doubt that with the amount of information at our disposal today something has to be done to enable us to cope. To allow us to make sense of it all. I’m talking about everything from improving the ability of positive government to get their messages over to employees [...]

With thanks to John Maloney – Transcendent Man, a documentary on the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil

Director Barry Ptolemy traveled to five countries and followed Ray Kurzweil for two years, documenting Kurzweil’s journey to bring the ideas from his best-selling book The Singularity is Near to a world audience. Ptolemy expertly explores [...]

Open publication – Free publishing – More aesthetic
Just a beautiful example of the power of visualization and the growing application of stunning creativity wrapped around the representation of familiar data. I cannot add much other than to say sit back and enjoy this.

Interesting to note the conversations now raging around the true fact that aural and visual, indeed all senses are critical to a rich and full life and of course by default – thinking. I never get fed up watching the Etienne de Crecy’s videos and his Structured Visual Thinking. A great reminder of what I [...]

Came across this interesting tool recently and thought you would like to see a first attempt. Head on over to Sketchcast.
I’m fascinated to see how all this can be connected within other applications such as cockpits, collaboration areas, bloks and wikis and the like. have been blogging recently about things related to this and also [...]

This is from those clever folks over at Issuu the self publishing of documents people. I’m always amazed at the ability of the current crop of applications to appear ever more intuitive and ever more easy but this stuff is so cool. Check it out…very impressive application methinks.

Came across this excellent example of the rise of the Interface in our lives. We are studying this area hard all the time. The goal of the Fluid Interfaces research group is to radically rethink the human-machine interactive experience. By designing interfaces that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive [...]