Technology at the Futures of Entertainment conference
I’m sitting at the back of Bartos Theater at MIT, listening to a panel talk about “Consumption, Value and Worth” during the third annual Futures of Entertainment (FOE) conference. But the panel is half the focus, because so many people in the room are sending tweets from their laptops with the “#foe” hashtag and uploading questions to the FOE backchan.nl: http://foe3.backchan.nl/meetings/view/6. Those questions are projected on a screen next to the panelists, and everyone with a computer can vote on which ones get asked.
Despite the neatness of it all, I can’t help but think of the last time I was in Bartos, when a woman walked up to a mic and asked a really offensive question about a presidential candidate. With backchan.nl, crappy questions get voted down before they’re put to the panel.
