http://www.richardbanks.com/2008/12/08/royal-institution-christmas-lectures-2008/ Quite random. Design or family centric. Mon, 20 May 2013 06:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.richardbanks.com/2008/12/08/royal-institution-christmas-lectures-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-138573 rbanks Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:55:55 +0000 http://www.richardbanks.com/?p=1593#comment-138573 I can’t decide if “newness” was necessarily a goal for everything in the series. I suspect a lecture series on electricity or medicine, for example, would attempt to put into context a lot of the historical work, right? Plus, if you ask Bill Buxton, most “new” technologies (like surface computing) were actually invented 20 or 30 years ago (see Doug Englebart).

]]> http://www.richardbanks.com/2008/12/08/royal-institution-christmas-lectures-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-138556 Michael Thompson Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:13:31 +0000 http://www.richardbanks.com/?p=1593#comment-138556 Hi,
Very good series but the one on RFID devices and the shopping basket is not new. I did a presentation on that subject in 1989.

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