What do we actually want from our technology?
What’s the next step in entrepreneurship? or after the “startup” mode of business? I fear I am having trouble even phrasing the question correctly because I don’t have the words yet.
Why don't movies look like *movies* anymore?
youtu.be5:09 / We’re also losing the talent to do this.
tech improves but also makes us forget how to do or perform certain tasks.
this is what we see when we see whole cultural trades becoming extinct. what is new today, will become old tomorrow and new again.
Why CMF matters. (joking, not joking)
This image makes me feel two contrasting things, simultaneously. Apple has managed to create a tech product that feels safe and approachable, in this case even something to nibble on (I remember I used to lick keys cause I enjoyed the metallic taste, probably the same thing happening here) and the other is signs of peaking, if you’ve become such an embedded part of a family’s life, is this just a product or a lifestyle?
I feel positively and negatively about this, and I think that’s a unique trait for a mega corporation.
Also, as the caption suggests — a natural progression from catering towards the intellectual who usually reside on the upper layers of the filter, and now it has become a pacifier as it’s continues downward…
Is this the answer or just one step closer?
This is end-user programming, a vision for empowered computing pursued by bright-eyed computer science visionaries.
Szymon Kaliski • https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/
our phone is a temporary feature - don't spend your life on it (like you wouldn't spend it on a fax machine)
My Tenets
This is meant to be human communication. Technology needs to fade into the background, so I can simply chat with my friends, family and work colleagues. We need a universal communications bus.
Eric Migicovsky • The Universal Communication Bus
Today’s software apps are like appliances: we can only use the capabilities exactly as programmed by the developer. What if we, and all computer users, could reach in and modify our favorite apps? Or even create new apps on the fly according to our needs in the moment?