Forget all that stuff about ‘mobile phones’ and ‘smartphones’ – it’s just a temporary state of physical necessity, an encumbrance until the real power and portability of tech comes along.
That’s the verdict of the crowd posse and speakers at #tedxl, the phenomenal leftfield TED event curated by Herb Kim of Codeworks and Dave Brown of Apposing. Kim is one of my biggest inspirations, not only in what he has achieved on the event level, but also in having unwittingly introduced me to my now-business partner Dan Lyons.
Dan, creator of the Fake Steve Jobs Blog and tech editor of Newsweek, is teaming up with me on a fairly ambitious web TV project called Talknology. We’re making geek speak chic, if you will, by taming tech and bringing all that guff to the mainstream in a digestible and fun format.
Lyons first roared at Thinking Digital in May – the first Herb Kim production I’d ever attended. By chance I remarked to Dan he should podcast, since he reminded me of Leo Laporte (TWiT) but was clearly better-informed and funnier.
Time passed and eventually we started working on Double D Guys, a web radio show featuring a ‘different’ (read marginalised) look at the week in tech.
Now we’re about to launch Talknology. More about that soon.
Lyons redux was at TEDxL where someone was foolish enough to shoot a video of me and my ideas on mobile tech. Probably half-arsed, and worsened by spilling particularly hot coffee on my hand during filming. That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it!