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	Spime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spime, as a noun, is a neologism for an imaginary object that is still speculative.
		Spimes are precisely located in space and time and have histories, records, are tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a naratives and identities.
		A Spime, by contrast, is an object that can link and swiftly reveal everything about itself, interlinking with search engines and databases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spime (182 words)

	Viridian Note
		Spimes have identities, they are protagonists of a documented process.
		Spiming is an ideal technology for concentration camps, authoritarian regimes, and prisons.
		Spimes are coming anyway, because every one of those menaces is also some kind of opportunity.
	www.viridiandesign.org /notes/401-450/00422_the_spime.html (3598 words)

	Functioning Form - The Future of the Object (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Spimes (our objects of the future) are no different as they represent the composite picture of our current networked information age.
		Spimes are objects that have “swallowed” our past by combining social networks, RFID tags, GPS systems, self Google-ing, peer-to-peer networking, auction sites, chat applications, digital storage, and more.
		Because spimes have identities and complete histories, they create accountability: we know where they end up and we know the impact they have on our world.
	www.lukew.com /ff/entry.asp?84 (505 words)

	Envisioning our cybernetic environment(s).: spimes??? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bruce Sterling's recent keynote for the 2004 SIGGRAPH conference introduces a class of objects that he names and#8220;spimesand#8221;, where spime is a neologism for an imaginary speculative object....
		Bruce Sterling's recent keynote for the 2004 SIGGRAPH conference introduces a class of objects that he names “spimes”, where spime is a neologism for an imaginary speculative object.
		He continues to describe the spine as transparent, a term that is ambiguous in my mind however in the context of Sterling’s discussion it is used to describe the fact that a spime is self revealing.
	envisioning.uber.tv /archives/1405.html (561 words)

	ThoughtStorms: BlobJects
		A Spime, by contrast, is an object that can link to and swiftly reveal most everything about itself.
		A true Spime is going to get ahead of the curve by bringing you inside the tent of the designers and developers and engineers, and the sales and marketing people.
		At one point it sounds like Spimes will be individuals and the eco-upside is that we will take care of and mend them, rather than dispose of them because they'll have a history and (personality).
	www.nooranch.com /synaesmedia/wiki/wiki.cgi?BlobJects (1103 words)

	RevoWiki - Steven Brewer.2004-08-17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		a "Spime," [...] is a neologism for an imaginary object that is still speculative.
		A Spime also has a kind of person who makes it and uses it, and that kind of person is somebody called a "Wrangler." At the moment, you are end-using Gizmos.
		My thesis here, my prophesy to you, is that, pretty soon, you will be wrangling Spimes.
	revo.bierfaristo.com /phpwiki/index.php/StevenBrewer.2004-08-17 (330 words)

	Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Research
		Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction and cyberpunk author discusses the concept of gizmos and spimes, objects of the sort described in the other story.
		Spimes, especially, are interesting; you buy then (where else?) at the drug store, and thereafter the spimes follow you.
		You can think of Spimes as being auto-Googling objects." I've mentioned Sterling before in this context: in his novel Distraction you can find the concept of a hotel that teaches you how to build itself.
	www.downes.ca /cgi-bin/website/research.cgi?item=1109803263 (252 words)

	Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only
		Look, Spimes are just a subset of something innovators have been discussing for ages - smart objects.
		The gains firms realize by abusing Spimes are far greater than the gains they realize by using Spimes to, I don't know, create nicer better technologies.
		So we have a paradox: control of the Spime market would be fought against viciously by citizens and antitrust authorities.
	bubblegeneration.com /2004/08/sterlings-siggraph-speech-on-spimes.cfm (291 words)

	Designing for Gizmos and Spimes
		"Spimes are objects that have "swallowed" our past by combining social networks, RFID tags, GPS systems, self Google-ing, peer-to-peer networking, and more.
		Spimes are "user groups first, and objects second." But most importantly, spimes allow us to make good on sustainability through a traceable lifecycle.
		The impact of spimes on the world and the world of design is pretty mind-boggling.
	www.odannyboy.com /blog/archives/001011.html (571 words)

	General News - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		He focused on three epistemological shifts, Sunda, Sahul, and Circum Pacific, that elevated these 'spimes' (contraction of 'space' and 'time') from receptive peripheries to active and creative centres of their own.
		Firstly the spime of the Sahul plate, mainly including Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, which were initially not separated by sea.
		The third spime both intersects with and mediates between spimes 1 and 2.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /iiasn/20/general/20G1.html (1555 words)

	Wired 12.10: VIEW
		A spime doesn't have to be that complicated.
		In fact, books are already well on their way to becoming spimes, thanks mostly to Amazon.com.
		In a world of spimes, even the simplest objects - furniture, cutlery, power tools - will be little more than material billboards for a vast, interactive, postindustrial support system.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.10/view.html?pg=4 (702 words)

	teezeh dot info » Blog Archive » Spimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		This neologism means objects that can be tracked in space and time and thereby gain an identity and — even more important — a history.
		Such Spimes — which then form an “internet of things” –, according to Sterling, will first exist as 3D models only, until someone wants and orders them.
		After their EOL they will be disassembled to become “intelligent waste” which will thereafter be fully returned into the production circle.
	www.teezeh.info /archives/2004/12/13/spimes (244 words)

	Trevor F. Smith: Exterior: My next Mac should be a spime
		His recent speech at SIGGRAPH 2004, When Blogjects Rule the Earth is not only the clearest synopsis of directed design-speak I have read in over a year, but he connects his concepts with uncomfortable real examples.
		On wrangling spimes: I have a bit of background with this, being a geowanker and having worked with a few of the big brains in this (ahem, recombinant) endeavor, and I believe that Apple is poised in the next few years to release powermacs as the first real spimes.
		Parts of 93 Photo Street are already open, but in a fully open spime application perhaps the tools for submitting code changes for inclusion in the main repository should be built into the application itself.
	trevor.typepad.com /blog/2004/08/my_next_mac_sho.html (746 words)

	Functioning Form - The Future of the Object Continued (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		To accommodate both use cases, an interface design needs to reveal some of the nature of gizmos: “Gizmos are devices that attempt to be everything at the same time”.
		The key takeaway from Sterling's humorous prognostications is that all of us techies are obviously users of "gizmos" (and he beat on the industry for creating such complex gizmos where we don't use 90 percent of the functionality, too).
		Soon, however, we'll be inundated with "spimes," a new word Bruce created for devices that will have much more functionality (of course), and knowledge of their own history and usage.
	www.lukew.com /ff/entry.asp?86 (374 words)

	mmeiser blog: Bruce Sterling speaks about "spimes" at a conference on Dec. 13th 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bruce Sterling speaks about "spimes" at a conference on Dec. 13th 2004
		This video landed on my computer weeks ago and I've been telling people about it non-stop, but I'd been unable to dig up the source until just now.
		In it Bruce Sterling talkes about his concept of "spimes" and the future of products.
	mmeiser.com /blog/2005/01/bruce-sterling-speaks-about-spimes-at.html (313 words)

	Wrangling Spimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I'm not exactly sure where to go with this, but there's something (I think) really profound in the notion of wrangling spimes.
		What's really profound, I think, is that a Spime is a Gizmo that knows all its entailments.
		This guy may or may not "get" Rosennean Complexity, but he's sitting on the edge of getting an equally important "big picture", which suggests that getting complexity right, and using what we got from that, is a profoundly important endeavor.
	www.panmere.com /rosen/mhout/msg01962.html (281 words)

	Perilocity: Data Objects: Forts (Geer) or Spimes (Sterling)?
		It is not sustainable, it has no future, and it needs one.
		[After much development of the idea of spimes, which are objects that tell the user all about themselves and everything related to them....]
		I believe his postulate is more along the lines of fast lean and ninja than forts and redoubts.
	riskman.typepad.com /perilocity/2004/08/data_objects_fo.html (1063 words)

	Mercurial: Spimes
		Bruce Sterling's BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech got me thinking about the use of objects in a near future, when their value gets to be defined by their social and environmental cost.
		Imagine a world with two kinds of people, the affluent ones with the latest, most sophisticated spimes, and the poor people with the old, polluting spimes, receiving hand-me-downs, spimes that do not compete anymore, where the benefit is in receiving something that in any other way will be out of the possible purchasing power.
		If we ever include all that information inside our daily objects, if we get to perceive the actual environmental and social cost of our luxuries and daily ration of meat, who is going to be able to afford them?
	www.confusedkid.com /primer/archives/2004/08/spimes.php (510 words)

	Envisioning our cybernetic environment(s).: My life of gizmos and spimes. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Envisioning our cybernetic environment(s).: My life of gizmos and spimes.
		I am thinking about turning them into spimes, as described by Sterling in his previously mentioned keynote speech at SIGRAPH 2004.
		A satisfying red button labeled fire, 2 colour display, and a strange plastic smell.
	envisioning.uber.tv /archives/1650.html (284 words)

	Viridian Note
		I was in Colorado at this event, and discussing a book that I'm writing on design.
		'Spimes' Bruce Sterling's new definition of products that are not ends-in-themselves, but 'stalls in the products stream, they don't stand alone, and are even easily recycled into the next spime' (timely).
		Since that seemed to go over pretty well, I will be venting my sentiments on the subject of "spimes" in much detail, when I keynote SIGGRAPH in a few weeks.
	www.viridiandesign.org /notes/401-450/00418_notes_from_high_ground.html (673 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Events \| Ars Electronica 2004
		There will never be a point where we will sit here and say, this is it, we have reached the future.
		I Got Spimed at Ars Electronica - Bruce Sterling on his blog
		Every year around this time the pristine town of Linz (population 200,000) gets invaded by literally thousands of Ars Electronica visitors from around the world.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=514 (1495 words)

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		Interestingly, this relates quite nicely back to a talk that Bruce Sterling gave at SIGGraph 2004.
		In it, he spoke of spimes: real-space objects that would, amongst other things, know what they were made of, and what path they'd followed to get to the consumer.
		I originally doubted the commercial value of such information: the producers simply don't want you to know where their goods come from, because chances are, you wouldn't like it.
	www.bloglines.com /blog/e/2004_8_23 (303 words)

	Re: Spimes, Bruce Sterling, sustain vs enhance
		Al Einstein is reported to have said something about not being > able to solve tomorrow's problems with today's mindset.
		I'd like to > think that holistic thinking, on just about any level, is the onramp to > the road ahead, and that a more rigorous understanding of the real > complexities of the situation, illuminated by spimes and their presence, > is what's called for, is what's for dinner ;-) > > another 2cents.
		Previous by thread: Re: Spimes, Bruce Sterling, sustain vs enhance
	www.panmere.com /rosen/mhout/msg01999.html (370 words)

	Saheli*: Musings and Observations: 11/01/2004 - 11/30/2004
		He wants these people to make Spimes, his neologism for not-yet-created precisely documented and interactive objects.
		Dealing with a Spime would be called wrangling.
		I have to read the whole speech again, slowly, and extract from the hyperbole and dramatic flourishes interesting information.
	ssrdatta.blogspot.com /2004_11_01_ssrdatta_archive.html (9919 words)

	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Blobjects & Gizmos & Spimes (oh my!)
		Alex adds: On second reading, I think this is the most important speech/rant Bruce has laid on us since the original Viridian Design speech.
		An insult to the tongue, an injury to the ear, and, to my mind, at least, utterly forgetable.
		We must be able to do better than "Spime."))
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/001053.html (359 words)

	BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the Earth"
		Some of this information might be contained inside the Spime, and some of it might be conjured up on the Web by, say, a barcode or an RFID chip -- but in practice, you wouldn't notice the difference.
		* Industrial hazards: spime kitchens that fry the unwary, spime cars that follow outdated software maps and drive right off broken bridges
		* And just plain ugliness: tacky, goofy, tasteless, cheesy, lethal, vulgar, dirty, worthless, obscene, impractical, and dangerous spimes.
	www.boingboing.net /images/blobjects.htm (3600 words)

	Technorati Tag: Spimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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	www.technorati.com /tag/Spimes (199 words)

	rant, whine, 'splain, espouse...: Bruce Sterling: On Blobjects, Spimes, and the Terrorism-Entertainment Complex
		rant, whine, 'splain, espouse...: Bruce Sterling: On Blobjects, Spimes, and the Terrorism-Entertainment Complex
		Bruce Sterling: On Blobjects, Spimes, and the Terrorism-Entertainment Complex
		Purely aside from his reference to hobbits winning "Oscars by the bushel full," I thought some of you (Ynnej) might be interested in this address by Bruce Sterling.
	www.enews.org /blog/2004/08/bruce-sterling-on-blobjects-spimes-and.html (210 words)

	… pieceoplastic.com .:. the revolution will be blogged … » Blog Archive » bruce sterling on ...
		the revolution will be blogged … » Blog Archive » bruce sterling on spimes
		but then he really gets going when he hits his fave themes spimes and rfid… worth the download… i wonder why ars electronica does not post movies like these of the speeches there?
		This entry was posted 8 months ago on Friday, December 17th, 2004 at 08:49:09 and is filed under gadgetMinded.
	pieceoplastic.com /index.php?p=1490 (211 words)

	Ars Electronica 2004 - 'The Spimes are coming !' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ars Electronica 2004 - 'The Spimes are coming !'
		A short look back at Ars Electronica 2004.
		Posted: Tue - October 19, 2004 at 01:47 AM Quick Links
	homepage.mac.com /moesch/iblog/C227795453/E572742278 (83 words)

	Hannes Gassert
		Edit: I shoudln't have forgotten to link to CRAFT's own visuals.
		Jan Zuppinger just posted a nice review of Ars Electronica 2004 on pixelsurgeon.com, while the rest of us is still wondering what a spime is and when the AEC folks finally put the video streams online.
		FAS.research (Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft mbH) has some answers to the following key question:
	hannes.kaywa.com /200409 (1012 words)

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