Adam is a Mancophile Joy Division fan who works for Nokia. He's a User Experience expert. - Martin Bryant

After becoming frutrated with UE problems he began to look at Ubiquitous computing - computers and 'the network' is all around you via sensors, computers etc - Martin Bryant

Networked Urbanism - he's been teaching a class in NY about 'Urban Computing'. - Martin Bryant

By the end of 2008 more than half the world's human population lived in cities. By the end of 2012, networked sensors will account for 20% of non-video internet traffic. From now on if you want to understand cities you have to understand they are networked. - Martin Bryant

Networked devices - mobile phones most ubiquitous. Even when your phone is switched off it's still marking your location. - Martin Bryant

Networked buildings - sensors in the floor, walls, ceilings. Automates lighting, heating etc and allows tracking of people etc. - Martin Bryant

Networked vehicles - RFID swipe cards for transport, sensors to monitor traffic effectiveness. - Martin Bryant

Networked institutions - Can check restaurants for health violations etc - Martin Bryant

Networked individuals - social media - Martin Bryant

Discussing data visualisation - eg Nike+ (Not Nokia Sports Tracker?! Gasp!) and mapped crimerates - Martin Bryant

Urban experience not just driven by architecture - there's weather, people you're with etc. Now we're surrounded by 'networked weather' - Martin Bryant

What inhibits people making the most of the urban experience? Fear - overwhelmed by 'mega cities' and we have been taught to be fearful of other people. Peopl different to us. So we hide in our homes and in groups of similar people. Fear is an unpleasant way to live. - Martin Bryant

Other inhibitor - loneliness. People without social tools to interact with people. Also - deliberate exclusion (by policy or law). The is the one inhibitor that technology can't solve. - Martin Bryant

When people suffer fear they retreat. The value of a network increases as the number of nodes increases - when people retreat from their network. They suffer and the network suffers. - Martin Bryant

Comment: one of the great things for me in this futuresonic is to hear from people, groups etc. that do the kind of things that I keep wishing (and saying) should exist - this is a great example - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

How can we stop this happening? More awareness (eg Google Earth), more control (eg Air quality data), more choice (info about neighbourhoods). - Martin Bryant

Comment: this is exactly what I have been saying should be built - anchored virtuality - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Richer experience - an emotional map, for example. Also, 'the big now': Tower Bridge in London 'Twitters' when it opens to let boats pass etc. - Martin Bryant

Joelle: what do you mean by 'Anchored virtuality'? - Martin Bryant

I liked his line "what if you get people in the streets, build the system they can interact through and with, keep it open, and then get out of the way - what then?" - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

When everything and everyone in the city is networked you end up with something "The shape of possibility itself". - Martin Bryant

So, how do we get to this situtation? Every item in the street (streetlights, postboxes etc) will soon have sensors - sensors are so cheap so why not network them? Give all the sensors an API allowing people to mashup the data openly. - Martin Bryant

Comment: this is really good stuff! - Martin Bryant

Response: well it is something I wrote about and made a speech about (in a small private group) that there should be this open, networked layer making localized data available as you walk in the place. Attached to the space. My idea was about everything like history notes, local tips, photos from 100 years ago, music, secret corners etc. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

If we want this we need to put pressure on our governments. It's public data that we've publicly generated - let's share it. Adam is encouraging us to become activists around this issue. I'm up for that! :) - Martin Bryant

Dangers: Crimespotting in Oakland, CA. certain areas look like they have bad crime. But only certain people report crimes. The age-old sociological problem of measuring incomplete data. - Martin Bryant

It's incomplete data but when it's displayed on a map it's 'seductive' - we have to remember it's 'a truth' not 'the truth'. - Martin Bryant

Sorting people digitally can be too stark and accentuate differences - Martin Bryant

Networked cities are vulnerable to hacking. So - need open API but also security protocols. - Martin Bryant

Automated bollards that open via RFID - glitches can jack up cars, possibly killing the driver. We cannot prepare for every eventuality. The designer of the system never prepared for it. There are complex design challenges. - Martin Bryant

Joelle: I think something like that will happen soon enough. Could be a mobile app. - Martin Bryant

Very inspiring talk from Adam. It's good to know people at Nokia are thinking this broadly. - Martin Bryant

it has to be more than a mobile app - it cannot be for one platform, one kind of phone etc. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Q from Alfie Dennen: How important are cheap GPS chips etc to this concept. Answer: this is an incredibly profound change to the history of mapping - changes what a map is fundamentally. A living document. We haven't even begun to explore the possibilities of this transition. - Martin Bryant

(on what i called anchored virtual) Response (cont) - It was mostly driven (for me) because I keep being contacted for localised projects but their ambition was so... narrow, if not pointless - advertising, classified ads, gambling and dating. The cash cows. And all closed, of course. This got me to think "hang on, there has to be something better that can be done, place notes that allow street level serendipity as well as useful services, where the virtual enhances the local instead of taking away from it - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Comment: I am someone who is always thrilled by what technology can do, and then disappointed what ends up being built. And he is very right that if people dont insist on non-proprietary openness, then this space will be grabbed by limited closed commercial systems which use up the capacity and leave no space for open exchange between the people in the place, it will be beamed down from corporate systems - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Q database culture of timestamping - places become installed with historical data. Answer: Data has a lifespan. eg Juvenile criminals given '2nd chance' as an adult. Problem with this new world of data - information doesn't die. It's a challenge - no answers yet. - Martin Bryant

Q from Kate about sustainability from Uni of Salford. Answer: He doesn;t believe in sustainability - we should use these technologies to improve our lives in the now while we can. He's a nihilist! - Martin Bryant

Martin:I hope it happens as an open system that many mobile apps can build upon, one not owned or controlled by just one company or platform. Nokia's current open source leanings are promising, esp. when you add android - so this could be built to be accessible to everyone not just people on contract with one provider and owning one brand's devices - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)