Hangout With the Technium
Ciaran Lyons
I would like to hang out with your small group and talk about what technology wants.
Last year to promote the launch of my book What Technology Wants, I offered to appear at your place of work in the month of January and give a one hour talk if your group would purchase 25 copies of the book. This arrangement was a rousing success, not the least because I had the opportunity to visit so many organizations I would not have otherwise met. The diversity and quality of the groups that I met with was amazing, and matched by the quality of the conversations we had. I think it worked out well for everyone. The only downside to the whole month was that I had to restrict the offer to the San Francisco Bay Area. Many groups outside CA, and outside the US were left out.
Now, to promote and discuss the new Penguin paperback publication of What Technology Wants, I have a related offer good for anywhere in the world. For seven days next month I will be hosting a series of small, 1.5-hour Google+ Hangouts with any group that purchases 9 paperback copies of my book. Each Hangout will be limited to 10 participants, which is Google's current cap on participants. A Google Hangout is like a Skype session but with 10 people, in ten windows on your screen. For 90 minutes I will discuss what technology wants and anything else the group wants to talk about. The group of 9 (I am the 10th) can be any gathering of colleagues, co-workers, enthusiasts or friends that you want to put together.
This is also an opportunity to explore video conversations, webinars, telepresence, and video chat for small groups.
The sign up page and the particulars are here.
Patrick Haller
>
> This is a pretty great opportunity to talk to KK. Anyone on the list up
> for it?
What would you ask him?
Patrick
Ciaran Lyons
Denisa Kera
amateur philosophy has a right to exist as much as amateur science
does...
Would be a good opportunity to chat about ScienceHack day which should
be re-branded into DesignJam
http://www.designjams.org/wiki/Main_Page ... keen on that radiation
mapping stuff, CO2 hacks or maybe estrogen in the water monitoring and
similar stuff
I am also curious to know what people with 23andme profiles are doing,
show some citizen science projects to which everyone with that profile
can contribute!
On Oct 24, 9:27 am, Ciaran Lyons <ciaran.ly...@newton-circus.com>
wrote:
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> * Quantified Self and citizen science, ref Fukushima radiation mapping
> * Something about his current uncertainties post, one of my all-time favourites:http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/current_uncerta.php
> * what does the 'web for the next billion' look like when every phone is smart?
>
> I guess we can use Google Moderator to take questions from HSG and ask the most popular.
>
Ciaran Lyons
Joon Ian Wong
Ivan
> available - Wednesday night at 11pm or Thursday morning at 11am. Maybe
> Wednesday night would be good if people want to get dinner and chat first.
> If I can get 3 solid confirmations for attendance I will buy 9 copies of the
> book and register the group (we can fill up the other spaces later).
Sign me up.
1 vote for Wednesday.
- Ivan
Denisa Kera
On Oct 24, 11:31 pm, Ivan <van...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Ciaran Lyons
>