Catching the Bus: Studying People and Practice at Intel

In a talk given at the UCI Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction the anthropologist Ken Anderson (manager of People and Practices Research at Intel) discusses Intel’s work at understanding mobility and spatiality in urban and transnational settings. A podcast is available.

Relation to my thesis: Relevant thoughts and stories around individuals, collectiveness and productivity in mobile settings (bus, train, tube), sporadic creation of little “we”‘s… and a nice quote: “the rubbish is your future” referring to people building homes over garbage. It made me think of cities like San Francisco that is partially build over rubbish. It is also interesting to hear an anthropologist reflecting on the past of the field and thinking about how ubiquitous technologies provided by western corporations can be a new form of colonialism.