Adam opening opened the conference with a great talk about how cities are now becoming read/write environments rather than de-socialized zones with everybody isolated in a tech bubble (iPod, mobile phone).
An energetic, visual journey in tomorrow's urban environments.
Yoo Suk Yeon is showing what she is doing as both an architect and a researcher, trying to build physical spaces for a population that is getting more and more connected and virtual everyday. She had the most beautiful and intriguing slides we have seen in a while!
Yoo Suk talks in both Korean and English.
Jake Song - a superstar yet down to earth and open Korean programmer - shared his long experience of building online worlds, first in 2D (Lineage, Ultima Online) then in 3D (Lineage 2, World of Warcraft). His talk resembled a how-to build the perfect virtual world, and my favorite slide was the one that said "try to build a weird enough world so users feel like they are somewhere else, but simple enough that people can still use common sense".
This talk was given in Korean and translated live in English for the conference participants. Unfortunately we could not record the English audio.
Bruce Sterling's presentation at LIFT evening Korea on Industrial Products And Ubiquity. Bruce talks about sustainable design, recycling, total life-cycle management, tags, radio-frequency identity, search engines, locative media, computer fabricators, industrial design, user records, metadata. web commerce and ubiquitous computing in the service of sustainability.
American journalist and writer Bruce Sterling talks about the Estonian Cyberwar, sharing his thoughts on who might be behind the attacks, and the potential future of a world were groups of hackery can take down entire states.
Lan Kyoung Hong reads the Korean press release announcing the LIFT events in Seoul. Free Korean lessons in video!