2005 SXSW Interactive's 10 Most Significant Ideas(incomplete)

(Note: this is a work in progress that is likely to change dramatically over the next day)

1. "The actual is the new virtual"- Bruce Sterling [transcript of keynote speech]

2. Podcasts: Geeks have always liked pods. However, it wasn't until this year that we observed multiple geeks frequently arriving to SXSW events with pods fully ready to cast.(1) [picture on left:: two ubergeeks prepare their pod to be cast]

3. The Fabject. Bruce Sterling writes: "Scan a human hand into 3-D, shrink it in proportion, and print it out in a thinly layered pancake of solidifying plastic. The "Rapid prototype machine." The "3-D printer." Or just -- The Fab. Shake hands with a disruptive innovation in the means of production.

4. Blogging for Cash, Business & Political Power. My prediction for next years weblog focus: How to save blogs from the destructive influence of cash, business, and politics.

5.The tech economy will forever oscilate between boom and busts. This appears to still be a holy dogma.

6. A Science of Online Social Interaction. The science actually doesn't exist yet. Why doesn't it exist yet?!

7. CSS rocks...  but it doesn't rock so much as to warrent the snobbery of a few (nameless) designers.

Notes:

1. Joke shamelessly stolen from Jon Lebkowsky