If you are looking for a visionary talk, Bruce Sterling' Seagraph keynote certainly hits the mark.
It's a call for the designers to conquer not only the digital world, but also the world of atoms. With barcode reader on your cell phone you can already find out the background to a product line and company right in the store. Soon to come so his vision, you will get with every purchase of a product the life history and all other needed information transfered to you too. From the design blueprint to the oh so important way to safely dispose it.
In the whole process you play a part in the feedback loop to the producer, as you do already with your purchases at Amazon: Improving the offerings and the processes of Amazon.com. You become a Wrangler.
He calls these things that go beyond Gizmos: Spimes as in merging the words Space and Time. I agree with Alex from Worldchanging Spime is not a good word, way to close to spine and therefore to spineless. Who wants that?
But it is quite possible, that Spimodo is coming to an RSS reader of your choice soon.