Bran Ferren , is an American technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur, and a prolific inventor. Ferren is the former President of Research and Development of Walt Disney Imagineering as well as founder of Associates & Ferren, a multidisciplinary engineering and design firm acquired in 1993 by Disney. He is Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds, which he co-founded in 2000 with Danny Hillis. Apple's "pinch-to-zoom" patent, which features prominently in its legal battle with Samsung, was invalidated by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2013 based on a 2005 patent by Ferren and Hillis for multi-touch gestures. Wikipedia
“[Visionaries] not only believed that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.”
To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering, Bran, Ferren, January 23, 2018, www.ted.com, March 2014 https://www.ted.com/talks/bran_ferren_to_create_for_the_ages_let_s_combine_art_and_engineering,
“Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet.”
Quoted by Douglas Adams, in How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, September 8, 2013 http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html,
“Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.”
To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering, Bran, Ferren, January 23, 2018, www.ted.com, March 2014 https://www.ted.com/talks/bran_ferren_to_create_for_the_ages_let_s_combine_art_and_engineering,
Quoted by Kevin Roberts (CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi), in Strategies for Peak Performance, September 8, 2013 http://www.saatchikevin.com/Strategies_for_Peak_Performance/,, and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (publisher of the New York Times), in NYT publisher Sulzberger spoke yesterday about journalism's future, 2007-10-17, The Tufts Daily, en-US, 2017-01-17 http://tuftsdaily.com/archives/2007/10/17/nyt-publisher-sulzberger-spoke-yesterday-about-journalisms-future/,
Quoted by Tom Peters, in Design Mindfullness, September 8, 2013 http://www.tompeters.com/docs/Design.pdf,
Technology Predictions: Wired for Life: The Internet Implant (June 1998 Columns), Columns Magazine, University of Washington, August 31, 1998, September 8, 2013 http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june98/technology.html,
“The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language.”
Context: The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language. It will be far more important than reading and writing as a purposeful tool. Everything that is enabled by story telling will be enabled by the Internet.
Quoted by Peter Guber, in
Museums for the New Millennium: Proceedings, museumstudies.si.edu, 2017-03-12 http://museumstudies.si.edu/millennium/proceed8.htm,
Metal Front Doors with Glass Like Success, likesuccess.com, 2017-01-16 http://likesuccess.com/img4416163,
To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering, Bran, Ferren, January 23, 2018, www.ted.com, March 2014 https://www.ted.com/talks/bran_ferren_to_create_for_the_ages_let_s_combine_art_and_engineering,
“In 250 years, reading and writing will have turned out to be a fad.”
The Creators, The New York Times Magazine, September 8, 2013 http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m4/ferren.html,
“There's no Bits, like Show Bits”
From the Vault of MIT
MIT Technology Day 1996—"Miracle or Mirage: Technology at the Horizon"
2016-01-20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hkXRxhIcjk
2017-03-12
A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Staff, Wired, WIRED, en-US, 2017-01-18 https://www.wired.com/2001/01/forum/,
Source: I.D. Magazine Interview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.D._(magazine)
Source: The New York Times Magazine, The Creators, 1999 https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m4/ferren.html
