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And she found that the physical
objects
that people were using were helping people understand how to use the exhibit, and were helping people learn in a social way.
And when you think about it, this makes a lot of sense, that using specialized physical
objects
would help people use an interface more easily.
I mean, our hands and our minds are optimized to think about and interact with tangible
objects.
I wanted to create something where we could move
objects
under computer control and create interactions around that idea without having to go through this process of building something from scratch every single time.
So my first attempt at this was at the MIT Media Lab with Professor Hiroshi Ishii, and we built this array of 512 different electromagnets, and together they were able to move
objects
around on top of their surface.
So if we want to tweak the color, we just enter the color mode, and then we get three different dials for tweaking the color, or if we want to adjust the audio, then we get two different dials for that, these physical
objects.
So you have these physical
objects
that represent police, fire and rescue, and a dispatcher can grab them and place them on the map to tell those units where to go, and then the position of the units on the map gets synced up with the position of those units in the real world.
So we're just beginning to explore what's possible when we use software to control the movement of
objects
in our environment.
But when we want to have a video chat or play a game or lay out the slides to our next TED Talk, the
objects
on the table come alive.
When I was a kid, I was, like many of you in this room, very much fascinated by Star Wars, and what fascinated me the most is this notion of the Force, this energy that connects all people and all
objects
and allows you to feel people that you can't even see.
Like, look at the room and look how many
objects
and people there are.
Right now, as Bill McDonough has pointed out, the
objects
that we buy and use have hidden consequences.
There's a wonderful book called Stuff: The Hidden Life of Everyday
Objects.
And that's when it dawned on me: This kid had only ever experienced disabled people as
objects
of inspiration.
And that that fabric was bent in the presence of massive
objects
like the sun.
Steel is stockpiled separately, where the carcasses of cars and microwaves and washing machines become iron rods for new construction; where roofing sheets become cookstoves; where shafts from cars become chisels that are used to scrap more objects; where aluminum recovered from the radiators of fridges and air conditioners are melted down and use sand casting to make ornaments for the building industry, for pots which are sold just down the street in the Agbogbloshie market with a full array of locally made ovens, stoves and smokers, which are used every day to make the majority of palm nut soups, of tea and sugar breads, of grilled tilapia in the city.
You probably think of things like this, finely crafted
objects
that you can hold in your hand, or maybe logos and posters and maps that visually explain things, classic icons of timeless design.
What we're doing with artificial intelligence is finding the
objects
in all the satellite images.
And if you could do that for all of the millions of images coming down per day, then you basically create a database of all the sizable
objects
on the planet, every day.
And soon we'll add not just ships and planes but all the other objects, and we can output data feeds of those locations of all these
objects
over time that can be integrated digitally from people's work flows.
Planet's Mission 2 is to index all the
objects
on the planet over time and make it queryable.
These are simple objects: clocks, keys, combs, glasses.
We are all familiar with these mundane, everyday
objects.
These
objects
are used as a forensic tool in visual identification of the victims, but they are also used as very valuable forensic evidence in the ongoing war crimes trials.
Once the forensics and doctors and lawyers are done with these objects, they become orphans of the narrative.
This swarm of
objects
you see streaming across the sky are asteroids as they orbit our sun, and it's these changes and the motion and it's the dynamics of the system that allow us to build our models for our universe, to predict its future and to explain its past.
Over the mission lifetime of this telescope, it will detect 40 billion stars and galaxies, and that will be for the first time we'll have detected more
objects
in our universe than people on the Earth.
Now, we can talk about this in terms of terabytes and petabytes and billions of objects, but a way to get a sense of the amount of data that will come off this camera is that it's like playing every TED Talk ever recorded simultaneously, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for 10 years.
Well, the funny thing is that I already have that kind of life, in a way, because I discovered ... it took me a while to understand it, but when I discovered around 24 years of age that I was much more comfortable with
objects
than with people, I finally decided to really embrace this passion.
Even this chair that you have to open up and then sit on so that it takes your imprint, all the way to this beautiful series of
objects
that are considered design by Ana Mir in Barcelona.
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