It's time to book now for Linz, Austria, in August/September 2006. This is where the next Ars Electronica will take place. Europe's most important show about art, technology and society.

So then: just how are we to cope with the increasing degree of complexity in the reality we inhabit? How can we tap and utilize the potential of global communication and realtime-access to information and ideas, to people and markets in an efficient as well as responsible way?

Consequential the theme is: SIMPLICITY

SIMPLICITY is not the opposite of complexity; rather, it is its complementary key, the formula that permits us to access and utilize the polyvalencies of virtual realities and global knowledge networks. To you know the term "opak" - for me it allways was the moment before complexity becomes easy.

And now there is the sentence that is useful for wearable computing: How can we develop flexible, adaptable systems, devices and programs that are responsive to our strengths and intuitive capabilities, to support our activities in complex contexts?

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(The Ars electronica program blog starts next month.)