Yi-Tan Tech Community Call #386 - From Sci-Fi to UI - 1:30pm Eastern, Monday =0A =0A 2013-04-01

[Jerry Michalski]

Greetings,

More and more, we see science fiction become science fact. Melie's and Jules Verne's voyages to the moon? Check. Joe Jitsu's two-way radio watch on Dick Tracy? Check.

Tom Cruise's UI in Minority Report? On its way. (And its personal advertising, too, eventually.) Star Trek's Holodeck is in the works, too. 

Last year, Nathan Shedroff and Chris Noessel published Make It So. They've been describing how flights of sci-fi imagination can influence real-world designs.

With them, let's discuss:

• What is the relationship between sci-fi fantasy and real-world fact? Best examples?
• How do you separate wishful thinking and bad design from inspiration?
• Who is really good at this process? Where should we be looking?

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Date: Monday, 2013-04-01

Time: 10:30am Pacific, 1:30pm Eastern

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Talk to you on the call!

Bestest,

Jerry