Rahul Sen: Future-Sense http://www.future-sense.net Thoughts, ramblings and experiments in making sense of a complex Future Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:55:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Touchable Holography http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/30/touchable-holography/ http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/30/touchable-holography/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:11:26 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=507

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Man: “What do you mean? We (robots) cant dream!”

Woman: “Of course you can, you just make it up!”

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Man: “…This dream was easily the best dream in the history of all dreams”.

A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to a the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to fall apart, he discovers he has a lot to give. This short film proves that ordinary is no place to be. (via IMDB)

View the trailer here…

I was reading some essays on Design Fiction by Julian Bleecker recently and was especially struck by this film after reading it. ‘I’m Here’ is such a perfectly imagined and made work of design-fiction in the sense that it makes you completely believe in the World which is created here. Not only are the ‘props’ and costumes entirely authentic, the fact that its set in the Almost Present makes the impact breathtakingly moving and simple. It focuses on human/robotic emotion while keeping the work of design very secondary.

This scene in the movie was such a brilliant piece of architectural fiction. It almost made me believe that such hospitals exist.

My moral from this story – A truly moving piece of design fiction is infinitesimally more valuable than a billion half-resolved design truths.

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Credit: http://www.ibraheemyoussef.com/ibraheemshop/

From Buzzfeed via Dehah’s Deviant Art page. Click to see larger version.

Via Cinemablend.

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/26/more-inception-infographic-awesomeness/feed/ 1 Geeking out on Typography http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/26/geeking-out-on-typography/ http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/26/geeking-out-on-typography/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:26:02 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=467 I just discovered WhatTheFont and the iPhone app looks very promising too!

Here are some fonts I really love, and were shown to me by my typo-nerd friend Vitorio Benedetti. :)

PF  Handbook Pro

Museo Slab

Variable

Trinite

Lexicon

Credit: Vitorio Benedetti.

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This prize-winning entry explains an otherwise complex movie pretty eloquently. :)

via FastCoDesign

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In the footsteps of Gary Hustwitt… this one should be interesting.

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A brilliant tool for me to use when communicating with people at meetings.

A personal favorite -

Open the Kimono
There is a lot of confusion about how this new product is going to affect business, so it’s time to open the kimono and make it clear where things are going to fit.

Unsucked, it means – Share information. Reveal.

Now all we need is this as an app on the iPhone with voice-control.

Sales meetings would never be the same!

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/23/unsuck-it/feed/ 0 The Interactive Holographics in Iron Man 2 http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/22/the-interactive-holographics-in-iron-man-2/ http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/22/the-interactive-holographics-in-iron-man-2/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:20:22 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=443 Credit: Prologue VFX

via Infothestics

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