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Use The Jefferies Tube: Why Star Trek Is Still Influencing Design and Our Future

08.30.2011 Art

On the wall beside my desk I’ve hung a framed sheet of paper from a three-ring binder. From a few feet away it looks like a piece of abstract art, but up close you can tell it’s a hand drawn design. It’s hand labeled “INT. DINING RM. 071″  and it has all of the signs [...]

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Things Change, But Not As Much As You’d Suspect

08.25.2011 blogging

The news came, late in the day yesterday, that Steve Jobs had resigned as CEO of Apple. I’ve already said what I wanted to say in my post this last Monday. I refer you to it: The Foundation Of The Future: Isaac Asimov, Steve Jobs, and What’s Next.

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iPad Typing Tip: Use Three Fingers

08.24.2011 gadgets

Here’s a tip that came from Penny, my editor. She recently bought herself an iPad 2 and she suggested this way to improve on-screen typing: use the middle three fingers on each hand. I’ve tried it and it’s very effective. Don’t use your thumb or pinky. Look at the keyboard, not the “page” where you’re [...]

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Magazines, Kindles and iPads — Reading vs. Looking

08.23.2011 Future

I recently participated in an interesting podcast with Iain Broome, Brett Kelly, and the hosts, Myke Hurley and Terry Lucy. You can find it here: episode 69 of The Bro Show. During the discussion we turned to the state of magazine publishing in the digital age. While both talking and listening to the others I had [...]

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The Foundation Of The Future: Isaac Asimov, Steve Jobs, and What’s Next

08.22.2011 Business

I hope you’ll allow me this momentary hyperbolic flight. Isaac Asimov wrote a very interesting series of novels called “The Foundation.” In them, his character, Hari Seldon, developed a science called psychohistory, with which he was able to accurately predict the large scale course of human events. It’s a great series, and was added to [...]

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