On the last day of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) industry tradeshow in Barcelona a few weeks ago, Ewan MacLeod of Mobile Industry Review and Rafe Blandford of AllAboutSymbian caught up with me. They explained:
We’re asking people what they see as the highlights of Mobile World Congress. Would you mind saying a few words to camera?
I have lots of respect for both Ewan and Rafe, so I was happy to respond. I expressed a few top-of-mind thoughts about Microsoft Windows Phone 7, the networking opportunities at the event itself, and about the growing interest in embedded connectivity (also known as “machine to machine” communications). The result is here, as Episode 148 of MobileDeveloperTV.com: “David Wood’s take on MWC“:
As you can see, I had the opportunity to say a few words at the end of the clip about the Humanity+ UK2010 event I’ve been organising. Once the filming stopped, the three of us continued chatting informally about this topic – which is (of course) a big and fascinating topic. Never someone to miss an opportunity, Ewan started filming again. The first question this time was “What films about the future do you like?” One answer led on to “just one more question” and then to “a final question” and even “a really final question”…
This became episode 149 of MobileDeveloperTV.com: “David Wood speculates on the future of (mobile) technology“. Ewan explains:
I grabbed the opportunity to ask David what his top 3 sci-fi movies were. What follows is an absolutely fascinating ‘real-time’ riff from David on where he sees the future going — in terms of technology augmentation — and what to do about the human race becoming far too reliant on technology that may well turn against us. Or that we simply couldn’t do without.
Many thanks to Ewan and Rafe for taking the time to edit and publish this second video, even though it’s some way outside their normal field of coverage!
dw2 
Leave a Reply