This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Some believe the future will look like more of the same-more smartphones and apps. David Rose has a different vision: technology that atomizes, combining itself with the objects that make up the very fabric of daily living. Such technology will be woven into the background of our environment, enhancing human relationships and channeling desires for omniscience, long life, and creative expression. The enchanted objects of fairy tales and science fiction will enter real life.
David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and instructor at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on making the physical environment an interface to digital information. His inventions have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, covered in The New York Times and WIRED, and even parodied on the Colbert Report.
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