danny

i was asked (indirectly) what was i optimistic about this year? and i know there’s an answer to that. i am optimistic, very. but i really don’t know what about. it is a gut feeling of something finding a way out. and my best shot is at applied intelligence on service models, or better, service being a major player these days.

i heard about services the first time (as in “someone told me what services are about” not “i used a services and was happy about it”) in 1999, on one of the most boring presentations i’ve ever seen. boring just because it was data, and hard concepts explained from the data, and mostly because understanding services (those days) was a very hard thing to do. it was given by someone that knows a lot about services, someone that lectures everywhere in the world (but is sort of a scientist and a genius). his name is ezio manzini. i was blown away. i pay attention a lot. i couldn’t figure it out. then i worked for some years on service creation, and i felt that was the most difficult thing to design: a service.

it took almost 7 years for the world (and myself) to understand it. and now we’re very close to really harnessing its power. or at least we know there’s power in it. distributed systems, social collaboration, interaction and support, community-driven models, pay-as-you-use, sustainability are some of its advantages. and getting you from a to b without caring on how to do so is the main goal (to me at least, but i don’t know much of it).

today i saw a presentation that made me feel optimistic again, or better: made me feel like there’s something that has to do with what i feel optimistic about. still can’t put the finger on it, but instead i’ll share it with you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E&eurl=

(by the way, this presentation is incredibly not boring)

in themeanwhile, i’ll keep thinking on that tickling i feel about this year to come.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 at 22:42:29 and is filed under thoughts.