Technology gets personal: highlights from SXSW 2013

In this article, David Caygill, creative technology director at iris worldwide, discusses several of the major themes that were prevalent at South by Southwest Interactive 2013.

Technology gets personal: highlights from SXSW 2013

David Caygilliris worldwide

Bigger, faster, louder: South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been growing so rapidly that the days when Bruce Sterling - the science fiction author and a regular speaker at the event - could hand out a photocopied map to his house during his closing remarks and invite everyone back for a party are long gone. Even three years ago, you could come to SXSW as a hot new start-up, generate some buzz among its crowd of hipster influencers and rockstar coders, and be reasonably confident you would have a...

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