Yearly need of a lift

I am off to the LIFT conference where we will exchange, among many other things, on the visions and failure of ubicomp, on anthropology and technologies (with Genevieve Bell, Pau Dourish, and Younghee Jung), on foresight (with Scott Smith, Bill Cockayne and Francesco Cara), and on the internet of things, robotics, pets and entertainment (Rafi Haladjian and Bruno Bonnell),

Kick-off on Thursday with a 30′ state of the technological world address by Bruce Sterling.