This evening around 7 p.m. I attended the TEI 2008 conference’s keynote speech by Prof. Hiroshi Ishii of the MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology)’s Tangible Media Group at the B-IT. It’s a 3-day conference (18-20th February) and Media Informatics students have the opportunity to come and see the keynote speech for free on the first day (today). I found the speech really exciting, so I really enjoyed the free-ride 
Attending the whole 3-day sessions? No way! Aber warum? It costs around €600!!!!! Maybe I’ll consider attending such a conference when I become a big-wealthy-guy haha….
So Prof. Ishii started the speech with the history of Tangible User Interfaces, then he pointed some key differences and advantages (of course) with the (mighty) Graphical User Interfaces, got into several examples and ongoing researches, and finally ended the talk with some future visions and encouragements.
Below is a picture of Prof. Ishii presenting the talk grabbed from my Indian friend’s picture gallery, Vinay. Is there any connection with the number 1 and MIT? No, at least not in the scene below. It’s just a slide showing that he started the reasearch at the MIT, hence number 1 is used 
TEI 2008 – Prof. Hiroshi Ishii conducting his keynote speech
The last quote he used before ending his speech was very interesting to me. I forgot the exact words used, but it’s approximately like this:
“The future is not to be predicted, but to be invented”.
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