Matt Jones
BlackBeltJones - urban visonary
On the web
- Website: BlackBeltJones
- Blog: Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones is a designer. He was creative director for the award-winning BBC News Online and Sapient's London studio in the first boom, then returned the BBC in 2001 to design the BBC's web search and a geo-located social network. From 2003, he joined Nokia in design research, then as a Director of UX Design.
He is one of the founders of, lead designer at Dopplr, a service for frequent travelers.
He has written on interaction design and planetary scale self-replicating robot dogs for eight years at blackbeltjones.com.
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The Demon-Haunted World
Since the 60s we've imagined the combination of computers and our environment would create both utopias and dystopias. Since the 80's we've seen academics, artists and corporate R&D labs prototype these futures from the top-down. Now, hackers are building sensors, bots and software into everything around them bottom-up, fast, cheap and out-of-control. They're creating environments that react, adapt and respond to us - and perhaps more importantly - each other: The Demon-Haunted World. Matt's session will be a whistlestop tour of those days of future past and pointers to some practical futures we can start building right now, together.