Amber Case’s SXSW Keynote

by jonl on March 25, 2012

RealityAugmented blogger Amber Case gave a keynote address at SXSW Interactive 2012 on “Ambient Location & Future of the Interface”. Mary Bjorneby created this Storify of the talk:

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