LIFT: Bruce Sterling: Spimes
February 2, 2006Talking about his new book Shaping things, spimes and listing out the terms and buzzwords that are now hovering and have inspired the term spime.
Blue sphere
Bogject
Internet of things
Info cloud
Web 2.0
ubiquitous
prevasive
continuous
tangible
fabbing
spy chips (there needs to be terms of abuse for everything because otherwise nothing gets done)
RFID
fabjects
fabuildings
He advocates that we need a verb to instantiate all these terms: which is spimes.
Who is excited by this: wranglers, early adopters, next generations of hackers.
This has nothing to do with: intelligence, awareness, smart, story telling, not ubicom,