One of the first presentations on Wednesday at ETech 09. Luebkeman, from Arup, talking about “Urban Futures”. It was an interesting presentation, and he was a great talker but… I still don’t know what the point of the presentation was. It all felt like an introduction to some...

The second session today I'd like to share with you was presented by a personal friend of mine, Jeremy Faludi. Jer started his session entitled "Priorities for a Greener World: If You Could Design Anything, What Should You Do?" by pointing out that if we want to change the world, we ought to know wh...

More notes from the ETech 09 conference, this a talk by Alex Steffen of World Changing: One of the biggest choices we can make is how many children we have. Given the choice many women have fewer kids than they would otherwise. We could see peak population in our lifetime. Most of the people who wil...

The second and final event on the opening night of ETech 09 was a series of Ignite talks: very quick and brief talks. Jane McGonigal Mentioned the Superstruct game. Shows a video from 2019 as if from a company called Signtific Lab. What if custom satellites were as easy to launch as personal website...

I'm sitting in Leah Buechley's Lilypad Electronic Fashion tutorial. Where we'll be playing with Lilypad Arduino kits, a collection of sewable electronic pieces that lets you build soft electronic devices. Essentially it's a specially packaged Arduino, a sewable computer. The materials are strange an...