Data. 

Most of you had one of two things pop into your mind, the guy from Star Trek or Microsoft Excel.

While I’m not necessarily mocking either of those, neither are good examples of data that I’d want to party with. However, it’s these mind-numbing misinterpretations of what is potentially an exciting way to look at our society, the things we know and the things we create.

On the sustainability front, I’ve written about things like IBM’s ‘Smarter Planet’ campaign and how the notion of public policy and connected information can help us create the types of communities and societies that build better cities and infrastructure. I’ve also written about exciting things …

In celebration of ‘the Fifth of November’, aka ‘BIM Day’ I thought I’d post some ideas of what BIM (Building Information Modeling/Management) might look like in the future. This could be 20 years or 30 years, or never, but we should never stop thinking ‘what if’. In fact, recently I’ve been thinking about the possibilities so much that I’m getting scared that I don’t really know nearly as much as I should.

At any rate, I’m going to post possible future-casting ideas for the way in which we could be using BIM in the future to harness the power of the ‘building in vitro’. Some of these ideas are simply and process software related, but a majority of the focus is …

So I won’t go on and on about Apple’s new Macbook’s here, but there is a great video summary of the design process with Jony Ive that’s at the end of the Keynote. What I would suggest doing (if you dont want to watch all 50 minutes) is to watch this video instead. However, if you want to know EVERYTHING about the new line check out the Keynote at Apple.com.

I love how the key word here is ‘essential’. Beautiful, just beautiful.