http://www.mocom2020.com Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:33:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to recent news, the future of books and ebooks will be vook-like, and media tablets will turn books into multimedia, web-linked, social-networking experiences. It all sounds very new, but isn't this already how people develop content for the web? Should we worry about books, or should we simply take the ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/10/will-books-drop-dead-when-the-web-becomes-easier-to-hold/ If we can learn anything at a moment's notice, wherever we are, while in possession of mobile tech (such as a smartphone), is there any real need to learn something now for future application? That is, with a smartphone, don't each of us already possess more knowledge than could be ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/10/do-we-need-to-learn-anything-in-advance-anymore/ Since Motorola released the first cell phone in the early 1980's, mobile users, researchers, marketers, advertisers and visionaries extolled the value of mobility in a wireless world. Mobile user location and distance to other users vanished. More important, psychological distance between users became perceptual—only two inches. "Long distance" morphed to no ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/10/mobile-phones-and-mobility-in-a-wireless-world/ Mocom2020 is a collaborative think tank about the future of mobile media. After we have published the website mocom2020.com, the future vision video and the book, we now want to share some background information and details with you. Here is a video with interviews of the team as well as ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/09/making-of-mocom2020/ After we have published the Video "The Future of Mobile - Mocom2020" it was translated by our community into chinese and french within a few weeks. Now we want to offer our video to more people in different languages. DotSub is the best platform for translations and subtitles of videos ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/08/help-us-translate-our-mobile-vision-video/ We need your help! Please have a look at these 20 questions about the future of Mobile Media and Communication. We reflect our thesis and trends presented in our Future Vision Video and want to get your thoughts and feedback. The questionaire will just take you a few minutes, but for us ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/07/20-questions-for-mocom-2020/ The goal of our open research project Mocom 2020 is to create and share a vision of the future of mobile media and communication for the next decade. Since the start of the website Mocom2020.com we have published many profound and insightful articles from international experts and advisors. We are overwhelmed ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/07/book-preview-mobile-future-mocom2020/ Within the first week after we have published the Future Vision Video we already reached over 10.000 views on YouTube. But we also published the Video on DotSub to enable users to subtitle the video. Within a few weeks the Mocom 2020 Community subtitled the video in Chinese and French. Thank ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/07/future-vision-video-subtitled-in-chinese-and-french/ Artificial intelligence pioneer Hans Moravec made an interesting slide showing the evolution of computer power and cost, and the trajectory toward a thinking machine comparable to a human brain. "Evolution of Computer Power/Cost". Wikipedia: Hans Moravec (born November 30, 1948 in Austria) is a adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute ... http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/05/evolution-of-computer-capacity-and-costs/ Today Christian Magel and Monty Metzger have presented the Video of key results of the MOCOM 2020 project at Next'09. Watch the Video here. http://www.mocom2020.com/2009/05/mocom2020-future-vision/