Guest Thinkers — February 22, 2011

The Future of Lifestreaming

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Vodafone Group’s user experience / concept development group has put together a brief video clip that explores the future of lifestreaming. There are some unique interactive visualizations in the style of Minority Report, exploring concepts such as “the magnetism of data,” “location awareness across time” and the “serendipity of discovery.” Very interesting stuff. A big hat tip to Mark Krynsky for finding this.

[video: The Future of Lifestreaming]

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