Space, progress and our "digital destiny" - highlights from SXSW 2013

In this article, David Caygill, creative technology director at iris worldwide, looks at some of his personal highlights from South by Southwest Interactive 2013.

Space, progress and our "digital destiny" - highlights from SXSW 2013

David Caygilliris worldwide

In the digital world, it appears that 2013 will very much be a year of transition and tension. For every salient point made in one talk at South by Southwest Interactive, I heard its counter, delivered in an equally compelling way, in another.

It feels as though we have come to realize that "interactive" is not really a thing over which we can muse in terms of how it has changed direction, or what's old and what's new, or even who is doing it badly...

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