Aide-Memoire
From the monthly archives: March 2009
Having recently seen the film, I’m now reading the comic novel Watchmen. It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from the book is:
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking … The [...]
March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day – and many will ask who was Ada?
Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She was born in 1815, the [...]
I’m not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in that they also change how we do things and our expectations of how things work.
Non-localised proximity Once we needed [...]
To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day on 24 March 2009, Nick Hodge has kindly invited me to participate in his show. More details over at Nick’s blog.
Lord knows what we’re going to talk about – but you can guarantee that between the [...]
The invention of hypertext and its implementation in the form of the World Wide Web was a revolution akin to the creation of the modern printing press. We are still seeing the reverberations of this revolution in many spheres of life.
With the implementation of the [...]
Many authors and commentators have been talking about the notion of generations in terms of age cohorts – baby boomers, generation X, generation Y, etc. For example, Mark McCrindle is a well known Australian researcher who has written extensively on this topic.
But I am not convinced that [...]
Back in the old days at GE (pre GFC) we were taught that all business ideas or problems should be considered from the “outside-in” or from the customer’s point of view. This was part of their Six Sigma approach using Voice of the Customer [...]
New technology often seems to take a while for us to work out how to fit new cultural practices around it. I suspect that social networking fits the norm in that regard. Human beings have been networking in forest, fields, villages and cities for aeons – but it is only [...]
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