"Changing Things" session speakers announced

"The Internet of Things is not what you think it is!". At Lift France, several great speakers will shed a new light on this concept: The "things" they will present are not just "smart" and connected, but also customizable, hackable, transformable, fully recyclable. They invite conversations and take part in them. They can be manufactured in highly decentralized units, in garages or at home. Some can even manufacture parts of themselves...

Bruce Sterling, the famous science fiction author credited with inventing the cyberpunk genre, has been turning his attention to design for several years. One of his latest books, Shaping Things, is "an essay about design, things and how we will move from the age of products and gizmos to the age of spimes" (a neologism that contracts "space" and "time").

Michael Shiloh is an engineer, hobbyist, researcher, artist, and educator. Michael works with foam core, concrete, computers, hot glue, steel, Linux, electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, remote controls, and broken glass. He is one of the founders of MakingThings, and one of the key organizers of the OpenMoko open source community.


Already announced during the same sessions, but worth repeating, are Usman Haque (haque :: design + research and Pachube) and Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Tinker.it!).