I had a blast at ETech in San Diego.
At every turn there was somebody interesting to meet, chat with or listen to.
I took a ton of notes, with good intentions of turning them into a blog post, but that’s not going to work out.
Instead here are four random/great quotes from the week:
- Steve Cousins, responding to a question about his proposed open source platform for personal robots: “In the civilian robotics area we don’t really use the words ‘killer application'”
- “Exercise – the poor mans plastic surgery” – from Kathy Sierra slideware.
- Nat Torkington, via Twitter, in response to an Ignite presentation by Noel Dickover from the US Department of Defense: “General rule for ETech speakers: ‘decreasing the kill chain’ tends not to be the goal of the average attendee.”
- Tim Ferris, explaining why his PDA doesn’t have an internet connection: “I don’t trust an inbox in my pocket any more than I trust dark chocolate in my house.”
And, one quirky website:
Finally if you have six and a half minutes to spare, you should check out Saul Griffith’s Ignite presentation on Howtoons (which I can recommend if you have some young kids to entertain) from the first night of the conference:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wyLHOTwvzf4
Saul is a super smart but friendly Aussie, who also did a keynote later in the conference on Energy Literacy, which was also excellent. I really hope this will be available online sometime soon so I can link to it. In the meantime this interview gives you a bit of the flavour:
