Bluesky Group Presentation

by: Renee Hudson

•    Mission: imagine the far future of social computing

•    John Battelle’s database of intentions (The Search)

•    Forrester marking research

•    Landscape of what might constitute social computing

•    See handout of goals and technologies schematic

•    Centralized / decentralized computing

•    Ubiquitous computing literacy – public should be aware of their relationships, but also their relationships to their relationships

•    Quantum computing

•    Article: “Jihad 2.0”

•    High risk social computing – the more you represent information, the more people will become distanced from what they are doing (glass cockpit syndrome)

•    World becomes a game or puzzle where you leave information that other people can access in a variety of places (emphasis on physical location)

•    Social simulations – conduct social computing experiments (create a character similar to yourself then allow that character to run over the course of a situation and see what happens as a result of that situation)

•    Social computing: large scale socially aware information systems

•    How does technology diffuse into society?

•    How does social computing affect our own behavior?

•    How are people taking on different social presences and how does that affect our culture?

•    Our country doesn’t work with social computing on the policy level?

        o    Need for a centralized policy think tank? Future of social computing – increasingly automated?

•    Kindle as a social computing device

        o    Could you know what other people are reading, etc.?

•    Ability to carry around a mobile cloaking advice rather than something that reveals