Part of the Process

The Future Soon by K Rupp on flickr Last Friday was the last dConstruct (at least in it's current form). For the past ten years this has been an interesting design conference held in Brighton looking at the culture/technology intersection. As a Artificial Intelligence graduate the subject matter was right up my street and changed the way I look at things just a little. While at University I had a certain nostalgia for the golden age of AI in the late 50s to early 70s, to have been around while Winograd , Weizenbaum , Schank , Newell and Simon were writing the papers that founded approaches and I was studying all those years later. What changed after dConstruct was that I now almost wanted to have been born later , with advances like 3D printing, robot kits that retail for around $1,600, and 10 companies with self-driving permits in California it feels like an exciting time to be studying, creating and entering the job market.  Looking at my Twitter timeline, this doe