Tom Coates is the co-founder of Product Club
Before founding Product Club, he was Head of Product for the Yahoo incubator Brickhouse where he developed the pioneering location sharing project Fire Eagle. He writes, talks and thinks about many areas of technology, including the web of data, social software and network-enabled physical objects.
Talk: Interacting with a World of Connected Objects
The network that over the last couple of decades has connected people to one other, to information and to online entertainment is now spreading into the physical world, bringing hundreds of millions of new objects online. Within a few years it may be impossible to buy an electrical device that does not come—by default—with internet connectivity and some kind of online or app-based service layer.
But in a world in which objects and environments can belch out information all the time and take instructions over the ether, how can we cope with the sheer amount of information - and how on earth are we going to interact with it?
Speakers
- Adam Connor
- Andrew Pairman
- Angel Anderson
- Anthony Mann
- Brad Frost
- Cecilia Weckstrom
- Chris Noessel
- Cyd Harrell
- Danny Bluestone
- Des Traynor
- Google UX Mentors
- Jeff Patton
- Jenna Marino
- John Willshire
- Jon Kolko
- Julie Zhuo
- Karen McGrane
- Kim Goodwin
- Meng To
- Patrick Haney
- Rachel Hinman
- Sophie Dennis
- Stephen Anderson
- Steve Cable
- Tom Coates