This week was the Gilder-Forbes Telecosm Conference, full of tech-types, entrepreneurs, physicists, inventors, investors, and the generally curious. It is an interesting and intellectual challenging group with inventors and innovators like physicist Carver Mead whose pioneering work led to microchips and a dozen other things we take for granted on a daily basis. Heady stuff. Here's where it lead me: First, from a purely practical point of view, with all the cool inventions on the horizon, it is more important than ever to get media psychologists on board. Knowing if and how technology will be experienced and used is a pretty important part of the process. A fellow from Qualcomm was talking about some extraordinary health/wellness features under development, but admitted that getting people to use them was sometimes a problem. To use a technical media psychology term, DUH! Even some of the inventors with their outside-the-box creations are still thinking of wireless devices … [Read more...]