Film is a medium where you can show a vision in the present tense. I began using short film medium in 2011 to produce design futures based on my academic research in the Future of Transactions. I also produce short documentaries about important Internet technology. Check out my Vimeo profile.
Out-Learn, Out-Think, Win: The Future of Military Learning
Out-Learn, Out-Think, Win—tells a story about how Defense personnel may learn in the future, using complex interconnected network-based technologies. One of the main characters in the film isn’t even human—it’s the distributed learning network. The filmmakers, from Purple Tornado, created a graphic user interface (GUI) to help show how the human characters interact with that system. In the story, Army Staff Sergeant Martina Reynolds uses various distributed learning tools to practice and assess her cyber-defense skills. The video opens with SSG Reynolds reading an ebook and then progresses through her conducting VR-based pre-training, and it finally culminates with an instructor-guided group training exercise. As the story unfolds, you can see how SSG Reynolds’ learning and development seamlessly blends across different systems, which are enabled by different instructional technologies and data-driven learning capabilities.
This video is a deliverable from a larger project, called Transmedia Narrative Use Cases of Future Learning Systems That was completed for the Advanced Distributed Learning CoLab.
A series of films documenting over 10 years of work on open Internet Identity standards and protocols, through the Internet Identity Workshop.
Not Just Who They Say We Are: Claiming our Identity on the Internet
10 minute documentary about the Internet Identity Workshop
Not Just Who They Say We Are from Phil Windley on Vimeo.
What is IIW?
IIW Documentaries, 2016
- Not Just Who They Say We Are: Claiming Our Identity on the Internet
- What is IIW?
An introduction to the Internet Identity Workshop - the most important technical conference for identity experts. - The Backbone of Open Internet Identity - OpenID Foundation
- The Importance of User Managed Access (UMA)
- Covisint and the Internet of Things
Future Film Scenarios
- Out-Learn, Out-Think, Win: The Future of Military Learning, 2017 Link
- Fly Me to the Moon aka Dinner with Friends, 2011 - Link
- Slices of Life, October 2012 - Link
- Flowers for Grandma, shot in 2011, November 2012 - Link
Other Documentaries
- The Startup Competition, A Mini-Doc, February 2012 - Link
- Digital Asset Grid: A Documentary, October 2012 - Link
Fly Me to the Moon
Four Friends pay for dinner in the future using integrated mobile payments, credit cards, private coins and corporate space currency; while their waiter is saving/earning enough space currency to win a sub-orbit space trip.
The Digital Asset Grid: A Documentary
A documentary about the Digital Asset Grid, a Research & Development Project from the Innovation Division of Swift. Post about this doc.
Slices of Life
My latest design future, Slices of Life, is about personal data, personal clouds and how we might have our data work for us in the future. The Digital Asset Grid is a new platform to enable safe and secure transfer of personal data assets. With control of personal data assets with the individual.
Flowers for Grandma
A mother and daughter decide to send Grandma flowers using a concept called Intentcasting. Post about this short.
