Mickey McManus is President, CEO, and Principal of MAYA Design, a technology design and innovation lab focused on “taming complexity.” He spearheaded the launch of MAYA’s Pervasive Computing practice to help organizations kick-start innovation around business challenges in a connected world where computing devices outnumber people. Mickey leads a team of cognitive psychologists, ethnographers, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, visual and industrial designers, architects, game designers, and filmmakers. This team designs for people in a trillion-node world whose scale and complexity will dwarf that of today’s Internet. To explore the potential impact of a trillion networked nodes on individuals and businesses, Mickey co-authored “Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology,” published by John Wiley & Sons. The book is a field guide to a future where computers become human literate and information is not confined to any particular “box” — instead being freely accessible in the ambient environment. John C. Abell, former New York Bureau Chief of Wired and founding editor of Reuter.com noted that, “With ‘Trillions’ authors Lucas, Ballay and McManus belly up to the bar alongside futurists Alvin Toffler, Kevin Kelly and Arthur C. Clark, offering a vision so compellingly argued you’ll only be surprised if it doesn’t happen.”
DEMO Mobile
MakerSwarm Aims to Open the Internet of Everything to Everyone
The Internet of Things is about lots of things. Not just the Internet of your things, or five or seven of some company's things that don't really play well with any other company's things. It's about casually connecting ten, a hundred, a thousand, a million, a trillion things to build a richer more connected life. Last week at DEMO Mobile, my company, MAYA Design, offered a sneak peek into a new app from our secret labs. It's an authoring tool for the Internet of Everything called MakerSwarm. MakerSwarm allows anyone—kids, geeks, moms, dads, me, you—to connect smart devices in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Business
Why Co-Creation Is Key to Survival in a Trillion-Computer Era
It may not feel like it, but the computer revolution is only getting started. Having one PC or even multiple devices that are like supercomputers in our pocket isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning. The Age of Trillions is around the corner. Trillions of computing devices, communicating with each other and with us is a done deal.
