A keynote to the 2010 Indiana Cultural Tourism Conference, May 13, 2010. The audio isn't great, and it ends abruptly due to technical issues. But this should provide the gist of the presentation.

1. PLACE Makes a Comeback
Indiana Cultural Tourism Conference
May 13, 2010
www.culturaltourismconference.org
Andrew Taylor
Wisconsin School of Business
ataylor@bus.wisc.edu

2. SOURCE: NASA
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YOU
ARE
HERE
(or thereabouts)

3. SOURCE: Flickr user Adam Crowe
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YOU
ARE
HERE
(or thereabouts)

4. Where does “place” fit
in a connected world?

5. A (very)
little history
via Kevin Kelly...
SOURCE: Flickr user guldfisken

6. A History of
Connected Computing
& Communications
in
Three Acts

7. ACT I:
Linking Computers
ca. 1950

8. ACT I:
Linking Computers
ca. 1950
SOURCE: Flickr users scriptingnews (above) & cote (left)

9. UNIVAC computer, 1951

10. ACT II:
Linking Pages
1990

11. ACT II:
Linking Pages
1990
SOURCE: Flickr user quinn.anya

12. WorldWideWeb, 1990

13. Mosaic Web Browser, 1993

14. data | distance

16. Second Life, launched in 2002
SOURCE: Shakespearesmonkey

17. cocooning

18. cocooning
SOURCE: Flickr user James Jordan

19. PLACE
takes a beating

20. PEOPLE
still hanging in
(and hanging out)

21. SOURCE: Flickr user Erica Marshall

22. flickr launch in 2004, facebook & twitter launch in 2005

23. SOURCE: xkcd.com

24. ACT III:
Linking Data
mid-1990s

25. ACT III:
Linking Data
mid-1990s
SOURCE: blprnt_van

26. Three Key Players

27. #1
Mapping

28. #1
Mapping

29. #2
Mobile Devices

30. #2
Mobile Devices
SOURCE: Wikipedia user Kozuch

31. #3
Two Digits

32. 39.7742, -86.1763

33. Greetings from
Latitude: 39.7742
Longitude: -86.1763

34. Greetings from
Latitude: 39.7742
Longitude: -86.1763

35. Now it gets interesting...

36. Concerts
Audio
Photos
Bus Stops
Blogs
Reviews News
Now it gets interesting...
Weather
Friends
Video
Music Preferences
Traffic

40. SOURCE: panoramio.com

41. Nearest Tube
SOURCE: acrossair.com

42. SOURCE: thehiddenpark.com

43. So... what do I do?

44. SOURCE: Flickr user courtneyBolton

45. Experiment.

48. Invite.

50. Adapt.

52. Feed, baby, feed.

54. Oh, and celebrate the real.

56. We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets

57. WE
ARE
HERE
END

58. Andrew Taylor
ataylor@bus.wisc.edu
www.artfulmanager.com
Twitter: artfulmanager
Coordinates:
43.073276,-89.402016