Aram Bartholl – Uncloud your files in cement!
Aram Bartholl, Datenform
Aram Bartholl, a Berlin based artist, mixes up realities: online and offline, public and private. The central theme of his work is the question of how digital data or products could be transferred to the physical world.
David Weinberger – Unsettling Knowledge
David Weinberger, Harvard University’s Berkman Center
“Chaotic. Unpredictable. Randomn. Very useful.” This is how David Weinberger, author, technologist and philosopher, describes flickr – a wonderful example of social knowledge. In his closing keynote at NEXT Berlin 2012 he explains how the internet changed knowledge and why our old institutions of knowledge fell apart.
AKQA – Velocity
Ajaz Ahmed, AKQA
James Hilton, AKQA
“Velocity” is not only the title of James Hilton’s and Ajaz Ahmed’s keynote at NEXT Berlin 2012, but also their formula for being successful in a rapidly changing digital world.
Russell Davies – There’s A Walrus In My Fridge And It Won’t Shut Up
Russell Davies, R/GA London
In his keynote speech at NEXT Berlin 2012, Russell Davies humorously and cleverly illustrates his idea of what will be next: the network of things. Davies’ post-digital world is a “making world” in which people use networked things to produce analog objects – personalised and on demand
George Dyson – Turing’s Cathedral
George Dyson, author
History repeats itself: Analog computation was the next big thing in the first half of the 20th century and, according to historian George Dyson, it will be the next big thing again. In his keynote speech at NEXT Berlin 2012, he explained why social networks like Facebook are already beyond digital and represent analog computation at the same time.
René Obermann – What’s beyond digital?
René Obermann, Deutsche Telekom
At NEXT Berlin 2012 René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, established that today the transition between digital and post-digital is complete or at least will be in the near future. In his keynote speech Obermann explained why this paradigm shift represents a threat and a great opportunity at the same time.
Behind the scenes: How NEXT Berlin 2012 came to be
It’s always exciting when something that has been planned for quite a long time finally materialises itself in the physical world. Over the course of three days, we turned Station-Berlin from almost empty into a complete event setup. Have a look at the video to see what happened during these days in early May.
George Dyson at NEXT Berlin 2012
George Dyson, author
George Dyson, historian and author, specialised on the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications. In this interview he outlines the impact modern technologies have on our lives.
Hermione Way at NEXT Berlin 2012
Hermione Way, The Next Web
Is Berlin the new Silicon Valley? At NEXT Berlin 2012 Hermione Way, journalist and founder of both newspepper.com and techfluff.tv, spoke about the Berlin startup scene and the unique opportunities European cities offer entrepreneurs.
James Bridle: Moving beyond the fanfics of technology and place
By Adam Tinworth
The language we use to describe new concepts needs work, as marginalised ways of thinking hit the mainstream, argued James Brice at NEXT Berlin last week.
Philipp Mayer at NEXT Berlin 2012
Philipp Mayer, SquadMail
Philipp Mayer (one of the CEOs & co-founder) and his colleagues won the start-up pitch at NEXT Berlin 2012 with their innovative app Squadmail.
Thank you, bloggers!
By Marina Lenz
Two very exciting and inspiring conference days lie behind us and we want to take the opportunity to thank all official NEXT bloggers.
David Weinberger: the network of everything
By Adam Tinworth
Liveblog of David Weinberger’s talk on networked knowledge and why the internet is toppling traditional institutions
Three views of the future of media
By Adam Tinworth
The media future is all about always addressable consumers, interactive, evolving ebooks and understanding how people’s brains work…
Martin Enderle at NEXT Berlin 2012
Martin Enderle, Deutsche Telekom AG
Dr. Martin Enderle (Senior Vice President Digital Services at Deutsche Telekom AG) talks about the opportunities to exchange ideas and opinions on digital trends at the NEXT Berlin conference 2012.
Selling Fashion Online – and Printing Clothes
By Adam Tinworth
Four talks from the Fashion track, exploring the future of fashion: designed and sold online, printed and equipped with micro-sensors…
Give the teddy bears WiFi
By Adam Tinworth
A meander through the future of connected things, machine oddness and connected owls, guided by Russell Davies
The Velocity of digital business
By Adam Tinworth
Ajaz Ahmed and James Hilton from AKQA give us seven rules for doing great work in advertising
René Obermann at NEXT Berlin 2012
René Obermann, Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom made news today at NEXT Berlin 2012 with the announcement of their hub:raum incubator. The news was broken by CEO René Obermann during his opening keynote.
Startup Pitch Winners: Squadmail
By Adam Tinworth
It’s like Dropbox for your e-mail – and it’s the winner of this year’s startup pitch competition: Squadmail The team beat over 100 applicants to get into the final 12 who pitched today, and then out pitched their rivals. Check out their product.
TV to come, TV to go
By Adam Tinworth
Franziska von Lewinski explores the future of TV, in the multi-screen, on-demand, social TV world of the future.
Hacker Kids, Maker Culture and Wired Clothing
By Adam Tinworth
Liveblogged notes from a fascinating Keynote track session on developing new tools – and the human today as the centre of interfaces.
Making Books into a Shareable Experience
By Adam Tinworth
Readmill’s Henrik Berggren thinks that physical books are doomed – and that digital books need to be a shareable experience
Designing Digital Services by Putting People First
By Adam Tinworth
Louisa Heinrich of Fjord outlines how to create real solutions for customers rooted in the problems people are actually facing.