Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group

Council is a loose group of professionals with different ideas and opinions. We sometimes differ and will probably clash. We prefer to host the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. We do have something in common though. We have been through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things.  According to Gérald Santucci, Head of RFID Unit EU, the IOT can not be build withouth artists, designers and philosophers. These insights were known to us from the moment we spotted them as designers, artists, coders, tinkerers and thinkers. Slowly over the past decade they trickled down into the Future and Emergent FP7 programs and the high end labs where the vision could not be scaled into everyday life so the notion of Living Labs seemed like a good idea.

In a similar way it found its way into the chapter 7s of each FP7 project, the moment where an ethical person was brought in to sort of evaluate the damage this new technology would undoubtedly do. In recent years we heard of pervasive computing, ubicomp, things take think and studies concerning its societal and ethical implications.

These studies are always interesting, years after the infrastructure has been rolled out.

So yes we think that the words of Gérald Santucci are of paramount importance as for the first time we hear of this need for creativity, innovation and a human approach in the heart of the technical divisions and programs.