Youngjin Yoo 몇 일이 지나면 장인어른께서 세상을 떠나신지 벌써 일년이 되는 날이다. 장인어른은 평생 글쓰기로 삶을 보내신 분이다. 어려서 북한의 함흥에서 태어나셔서 해방무렵 남한으로 오시고, 우리 아버님과 함께 보성고등학교를 졸업하시고, 지금의 연세대학교를 다니셨다. 한국전쟁이 끝나면서 부터 기자생활을 시작하셨다. 그리고 나서 1967년에는 아시아 재단에서 주는 장학금을 받아서 미국 콜롬비아 대학교에서 고급언론과정에서 과학 언론을 공부하시고, 귀국 이후에는 한번도 옆을 … Read more
I started using bricks in my design workshop program. This means that I need actual bricks of different kinds as a part of my program. Since I deliver this program in different places, I often need to ask local hosts to buy these bricks for the session. This is a picture sent by an individual … Read more
Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. There are so many postings and articles on the internet, remembering him and his legacy. In this economy where many wealthy people are being criticized for their outsized greed, no one seems to be bothered by his outsized wealth. Even protestors at Wall Street are busy twitting and posting on … Read more
Recently, New York Time had an article on evasive nature of value of IT investments in classroom. Kyrene School District in Arizona spent roughly $33 million since 2005 on various forms of information technology in classroom. Yet, the reports says, scores in reading and math have stagnated in the district, while the statewide scores have … Read more
Last spring, we ran a design challenge for "North Broadband". The idea was to prototype a digital ecosystem that leverages various digital, physical, intellectual and financial resources that are already in place in North Philadelphia to transform the neighborhood. Ninety students in 15 teams, representing five schools and colleges participated in the challenge The winning … Read more
Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank and Yahoo! Japan, has an interesting way of thinking about how the future will look different in about 30 years from now. With an average mobile device that costs $300, he says, we can now store 6400 songs, 4 years worth of news and 4 hours of movie. By 2040, … Read more
I saw a video presentation by Douglass Rushkoff at Google recently. The main these of his talk was the fact that digital technology is different from other technologies as it can be programmed. Since it is one of the arguments that I have been making recently about digital technology, it picked my interest. (The other … Read more
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I am thrilled to announce that we will have Fox DESIGNWeek 2011 from March 11 – 18. The event has two components: North Broadband Challenge and incitexchange. North Broadband Challenge + How can we use increasingly pervasive digital technology to re-imagine the future of the city? + Can we use digital technologies to inspire, mobilize, … Read more
The founder of Twitter posted a blog, “The Tweets Must Flow“. At the same time, working with Twitter, Google introduced voice-enabled Twitting service in order allow Internet-striped Egyptians to tweet through a voice mail. They are heralded as heroic acts by many internet zealots. And it fits nicely into a narrative of technology as a … Read more