Microsoft's head search guy, Qi Lu, delivered a punchy speech this week at Imagine 2011 with a call to arms - it's time to reorganize the web.

Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality. Some people didn't even know he was still alive....I can assure you he is. He's working at Microsoft and it seems his time has now arrived, thanks in part to a $150 device.

Snappy video from the folks in Microsoft Advertising that looks at trends in media....starting with newspapers and accelerating in to the social world of today.

A recent presentation by Craig Mundie highlights the potential of NUI to create computers that behave 'more like us.' 

Storytelling at it's best - courtesy of a behind the scenes video from TED 2010 starring Sir Ken Robinson and Raghava KK.

How do you get Steve Ballmer, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Jaron Lanier together? That's what Imagine 2011 is doing this week in a global discussion on marketing.

There are still many hurdles to be hurdled before we have Terminator style contact lenses but the University of Washington is making impressive progress. Me, I'm imagining this hooked up to realtime facial recognition for a world of augmented reality.