Thanks to ??? (@josanku) of KT, I had the opportunity to play with an iPad today while hanging out at COUP (pictures below). I didn’t have a chance to play with it for long, but my first impression is that it’s a nice device… but not all that. It won’t replace your laptop, and it won’t replace your smartphone, but if you have money to spare, I can see how it could be a fun toy.

Personally, though, I will wait for the Notion Ink Adam. Same form factor, but none of the limitations of the iPad… plus it has the awesome Pixel Qi display.

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Late 1990s were the haydays of the Korean internet because we had broadband infrastructure that was unrivaled anywhere else. Cyworld, Dialpad, digital goods and other web services and ideas emerged here long before they did in the west.

Korea, China, Japan are the big economies in the east. In regards to the economy their is not that much of a discrepency but in regards to landsize it is very small. If China was a watermelon, and Japan was a strawberry, then Korea would be a pea… actually half a pea.

There are 48 million people in a very small land area. This is bad… until you look at connectivity and broadband penetration. 94 percent broadband penetration in Korea.

Koreans are a homogenous group of people. Things / ideas spread very quickly because of this.

Tehran Valley is the equivalent of Silicon Valley in the US.

Cyworld preceded Facebook by 5 years.

Korea leads the worlds in many areas including how much time ppl spend online.

11 million went to gaming sites. 13 times/ month

Usage is here. But innovation seems to have stopped. Why?

Walled gardens. Portals have lots of traffic coming in but little being sent out. Also mono-culture for browsers… only uses Internet Explorer

Many types of phone plans in Korea but no unlimited data plan in Korea. Korean companies are not giving consumers what they want.

47% of all internet users in Korea illegally downloaded 55 movies per year.

Korean used to be innovators in internet web service but seems to be going backward now.

Mobile data usage is very low too because of the cost.

Entrepreneurs are here. But VCs need to support them.

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Today’s talk will be focused on changes of the web due to technological development and the emergence of the social web.

Our world is like Jampong (a combination korean chinese noodle soup dish).

The future of the web. The next web. What is it? Instead of the PC being the node… people will be the node. Our conversations, pictures, and the stuff generated by us will be the future of the web.

Action Potential – In the brain… neurons need a sort of critical mass to do something.

For the web this is also true. The old web is the data web. The focus was on the structure and connections, not the energy that was created.

Today it is evolving. Take for example Twitter… most tweets and comments get lost. But certain tweets / videos / conversations pick up enough steam that they achieve critical mass. They have action potential.

Twitter party example in Korea – create an event in Korea where Korean twitters can meet each other. It was a success. Got me curious about creating a social action event… so I looked for an example and I found Twistival

I have been using Twitter to test ideas. I throw an idea out there and if people like it… it gets picked up and it snowballs. Large amounts of energy can be gathered and focused in a short time thanks to these new technologies like Twitter.

The brain works similar to this. Brain connections that are not used are pruned away.

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Presentation is paraphrased:

Design is a natural innate human ability that is waiting to be released. By educating everyone in design thinking… it is possible to change the world.

Hosted many design thinking workshops and the results are always exciting. People who attend are from all fields and ages.

Participants build mockups at these workshops.

Three part process to get people to design:

1. Provide the opportunity and enviroment (encouragement) to solve real world problems
2. Materials and coaching to build their solutions
3. Show creative results at the end

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The first speakers are Seungbum Kim and Haejin Jung – both practicing general physicians

We have a cafe attached to their medical office to bring some humanity back into medicine… so rather than making the doctor office a sterile scary experience… we try to bring some warmth back into the situation. So we are focused on creating a human oriented medical experience using medical design.

Something as simple as hiding a stethoscope in the doll can make listening to the heartbeat of a baby a much more enjoyable experience than it otherwise would be. And putting candy on a tongue depressor makes sticking that piece of wood in your mouth pleasant… who would have thought?

Enhancing communication between doctors and patients begins with looking at the way the space around a doctor and patient is organized. In a typical doctor/patient consulation a desk and all the stuff on it sits between the doctor and the patient. How can we overcome this?

In a conversation between the doctor and patient, also lose the story that the patient tells. In an effort to capture the symptoms that the patient in complaining about, the doctor focuses on distilling the patients story to a few keywords… headache, vomiting, shortness of breath etc. The patients story in the end is lost.

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The line up of speakers is quite impressive, from a former Apple lead designer to the Founder of Tattertools (Korean version of the Wordpress blogging service). For speakers who present in Korean, they even have headsets so that us Hangul inepts can understand what is going on. Not to mention the Microsoft Surface sitting outside the conference room to play with… also a first for me.

The event host is this guy…. didn’t catch his name

Here is a list of the speakers:

Jaram Lee – a traditional Korean music performer
Dongwon Hong – designer and founder of Typomedia (Geulsee Media in Korean)
Hwang Doo Jin – Architect fusing traditional Korean and modern western design sensibilities
Jihoon Jeong – Medical engineer
Bill Dresselhaus – former designer at Apple and founder of a design consultancy the Dresselhaus Group
Eungyul Lee – world class magician
Seungbum Kim and Haejin Jung – General physician
Yeonho Oh – Journalist
Chang Kim – founder of Tattertools and blogger at Web20asia
Chibok Song – Copywriter for among other things ex-president of Korea Roh Moo-Hyun

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I have big plans for dtangl, and as those plans materialize I will let you know more about it. For now, dtangl.com will be a little more focused of a blog than this one. dtangl will focus primarily on education and educational technology… similar to what this blog began as.

This blog will continue to be my outlet for all sorts of random thoughts on the world and technology.

In any case, I just posted my first entry on dtangl about living in a world of abundance. The post was inspired by Chris Anderson’s new book Free. You can find an excerpt of my post below.

We are living in an age of abundance. If you are reading this post then you have already experience what I am talking about. Think about the steps that you took to get here. Perhaps you googled something. Which generated a list of a million and one pages of information for you to browse through. And you clicked on a link which just happened to be the link to this article. When you are finished here you will google something else. Or you will follow one of the links that I have placed here in my blog. Or you will spend the next few hours reading Free.

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This blog post is as much for my benefit so that I can look back and see what I did. And most importantly what mistakes I made. Hopefully if you are reading this blog, you will learn from my mistakes so that you won’t have to make them.

So before I begin here is the system I am installing this on:

2.16GHz Intel Mac Book Pro running OS X Version 10.5.6

Installing Ruby on Rails.

I installed Ruby on Rails by following this excellent step by step post Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) which is the updated version of this guide, both of which I found on Hivelogic. The post is a bit dated but just about everything works perfectly. I did have make some minor changes to the installation to make sure I got the latest version of Ruby and Rails, but all that requires is that you find out what the latest version is a replace it in the code.

(You can find out what the latest version is by checking out the Ruby on Rails and Ruby Gems websites.)

So for example to install the latest version of Ruby Gems, everywhere I saw:

rubygems-1.3.1.tgz

I replaced it with:

rubygems-1.3.2.tgz

See easy as pie.

The only real problem I had was in installing Subversion. If you see these two error messages when trying to configure Subversion:

error: –with-openssl requires a path

error: –with-zlib requires an argument

then try removing the –with-openssl statement and add =/usr/ after –with-zlib so it looks like this:

./configure –prefix=/usr/local –with-ssl –with-zlib=/usr/

Now I don’t know what this actually does, but the installation does seem to work if you do this. Don’t blame me if something happens to your computer though… I am still learning too.

Anyway that is it for the installation. All in all it took me about 2 hours to install everything. Although I am sure that someone seasoned at this could do it much faster.

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My response: I was a teacher in Korea. And the system here is just as f’d up as it is in the United States. If you want to compare math and science scores… ok Korea and Japan do have a significant edge on the United States, but you should see what these kids have to go through. A lot of these kids are addicted to coffee by the time they start middle school. It is not unusual for them to go to school from 7am to 10pm, Mon thru Fri and throw in another half day over the weekend. This can’t be healthy in the long run. And now I hear that people in the United States are saying that we should make our education system more like Korea and Japans? My honest opinion is that that would be a terrible mistake.

Why? Well if you are looking for solid data proving why this would be a terrible move, I don’t have any. But I do want to show you a YouTube video that I recently came across that will serve as my anecdotal evidence. This video (created by Kutiman) is a compilation of other user created music videos scattered across YouTube, blended together to create one longer video song. The result, an incredible creative audio endeavor.

But more important than the result itself was how it was created. You think that somebody went to school and was taught how to do this? You cannot be taught to be creative. Creativity comes from free time. And as Kevin Kelly suggests creating this video must have been a total waste of time and it will probably bring the artist immeasurable success.

What I am trying to suggest with this is that free time is important. The ability to waste time is important. Granted many of the things children do with that free time will be pointless (in our eyes) but we must still give them that time because one day they will create something that will bring them immeasurable success using that free time. 

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I know that I am being self-laudatory, which most… including myself… would find to be annoying, but I feel like I deserve it. I have been running this blog for the better part of two years (I know… there is not much to show for it) and I have taken my fair amount of jostling, rib nudging, nuggies from friends who ask me if it is really worth it to write a blog that no one but myself probably reads.

Well now I have my answer… Google thinks my name is cool. Admittedly they didn’t copy my name (which would have been even cooler) but at least now I can say that me and Google think along the same lines or shall I say latitude.

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