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A centre built to house prehistoric artefacts designed by South African practice Peter Rich Architects won the World Building of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona last night. (more…)
The panelists are discussing the role of music in the digital age. After years of dramatically declining revenue, music companies try to win ground with new applications and platforms. Following television casting shows like 'Deutschland sucht den Superstar' (a German version of the 'Idols' series), new stars rise through social music networks, where newcomers can present themselves. Music producers frequently scan the net for promising talent - but the question remains: What is music worth in the first place?
The panelists are discussing the role of music in the digital age. After years of dramatically declining revenue, music companies try to win ground with new applications and platforms. Following television casting shows like 'Deutschland sucht den Superstar' (a German version of the 'Idols' series), new stars rise through social music networks, where newcomers can present themselves. Music producers frequently scan the net for promising talent - but the question remains: What is music worth in the first place?
Watching TV via IP on a personal computer is only the first step towards the television of the future. Mobile TV is the next. How people will watch clips, shows and serials everywhere you want is an important topic concerning TV managers. The panelists are dicsussing how the future of television will look like.
Roughly a third of the world's population lives in China and India. The former "sleeping giants" offer huge economic potentials. Both countries are facing fast-paced centuries - not without risks. Freedom of information is not guaranteed everywhere. Which role does the Internet play for those developments will be discussed in this panel.
The current explosion of media is about more than users generating content: The roles of users, producers and publishers melt into each other and become interchangeable. Digital tools allow everybody to create his own media sphere. How do these trends change social life? How can media companies sustain their revenues after having lost the monopoly on access to the infrastructure?
Data handling and archival storage more and more help to work artistically in retrospect. What role do archives and memory play in contemporary art, especially in a time which is increasingly influenced by information technologies and data storage? Hans-Ulrich Obrist, one of the world's most acknowledged curators, is moderating the panel.
The internet offers many opportunities to present nearly everything visually, with the help of icons, pictures, graphics or drawings. Because of that, the amount of text declines more and more. Is there a tendency towards more creativity or visual thinking? Or perhaps a depletion of speech? The discussion in this panel centers arund this questions.
A discussion about new technologies and opportunities on mobile markets: Mobile telecommunications are one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. More and more bits and bytes floating round the world enable mobile surfing and mobile television. With the growth of the sector, the number of the competitors is growing rapidly. The market for mobile communications becomes more and more international, and the importance of international regulation rises.
This panel is set in two parts: at first, information scientist Sugata Mitra will present new ways of education on the basis of his experiment "A hole in the wall". In the second part daniel dubno shows some pictures of exploding things. He thinks it's important for kids to blow things up, it's a good way of learning stuff. gregory w. harper shows all kinds of fun technical stuff you don't really need, Chuck Hoberman talks about the transformability of design, and Hacker Pablos is talking about credit cards.
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Energy is everywhere: without energy, there would be no digital life, and life would be hardly possible at all. The panel "Visions on energy" focuses on all the sources of energy used by mankind, their respective efficiency and their significance for the future.
Matthewated by John Brockman, the leading scientists Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter are discussing the gene-centric view of life and are also talking about the „digitalisation“ of genetics.
David de Rothschild, founder of "Adventure Ecology", an independently run organisation that uses adventure, education and the arts to address global sustainability issues, interviews Tom Varsavsky, a 14 year old boy, about his online habits.
The DLD-hosts and founders, Marcel Reichart and Stephanie Czerny are opening the conference for the 4th time.
After receiving the Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership 2008 Martha Stewars shows her luggage, which is full of technical gadgets. She talks about how accustomed she is to modern electric gadgets and internet communities such as Facebook.
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What does the inconvenient truth look like? How can it be brought to light? Which methods and approaches are necessary to inform people about things that some groups are just too likely to cover up? Kenneth Roth will be interviewed by Kara Swisher.
The session "Ad Exchange" surveyed the next generation of advertising, focusing on web 2.0-applications. Banners, inserts, publicity texts and graphics have to be theme-focused to be successful. Several new media experts discuss at DLD how theme-oriented advertising works.
The panelists are talking about Africa as a continent of opportunity. At the same time they also examine and explain difficulites and problems companies have to deal with while doing business in Africa.