I didn’t have the highest expectations for last night’s presentation by Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence, Genevieve Bell, but she took imy mind to another level! (Listen here: http://media.mikeseyfang.com/temp/ATIR-GenevieveBell.mp3)

Genevieve brought a global, high-to-low tech & philosophical view point to the room, which was full of people that didn’t look like the most progressive types around.

Fantastic presentation, great mind, and I will be hoping to get to know her more next week, and will try to get her on Love Digital for an interview soon.

It was exciting to see that our Twitter conversation was running hot, with what seemed like about 10 twitterer’s tweeting rapidly!

You can read @Fang – Mike Seyfang’s thoughts about it here:

http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/11/27/a-million-sastories-yes-we-can/ ()

And Duann’s thought’s here:

http://blog.ponoko.com/2008/11/27/adelaide-thinker-in-residence/

The live Twitter comments here:

http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1027096040&q=%23atir

Some Flickr photo’s here:

http://flickr.com/photos/dnwallace/tags/atir/

The main takeaway’s for me were:

- People connect because and how they want to

- The technology doesn’t provide the value, the message and communication does

- Some governments are embracing digital (Shanghai = Virtual Graveyard, Egypt = Idol for ‘Religious alerts’)

- Genevieve Bell is amazing