drawing of me by

Heather Knight talked about how we should think of robots as friends (like the Japanese do) rather than just as handy but essentially untrustworthy cleaners and war-fighters.

Jake Barton, talking about physical/playful/interactive/experience stuff with the wonderful folks from Design I/O, said "Early film pioneers just basically pointed the camera at stuff to see what worked. Then someone found that film of oncoming trains drove audiences wild and suddenly there was an industry in making oncoming train movies". The implication was that we’re in that super early phase and don’t yet know what works but that it may explode in a similar way as people work pieces out.

That's just a fraction of the exciting stuff that swirled around at eyeo. Plus it was actually true that the best part of the conference was the conversations in the hallways, bars and restaurants with the other attendees (even with the great stuff coming from the stages).

I put some marginally less random notes up over here if you're interested.

“I don’t just think the absurd is important, I think it is crucially important”.