My first thoughts on the iPad included a lot of concerns about not being able to create on the iPad yet and pointing toward graphical applications as the quickest road to delivering that. iPad specific answers to the creation challenge are appearing. This video for iMockups places a nice face on these answers.
There have been varied reactions to the iPad but those that most interest me are those that go beyond Apple’s marketing message of “the iPad is a new thing that will revolutionize computing” and ask “where will this revolution lead?” An angle I find especially interesting is expressed in Alex Payne’s On the iPad. What [...]
The long awaited Apple tablet is announced. We’ve had the opportunity to “see [their] latest creation.” Time to consider what it all means. Pre-release expectations Talking with friends about the iPad back when we were all still speculating on the name we came across rumors that dashed our early hopes. The tablet would most likely [...]
Chris Anderson on freeing technology’s anti-inflationary power. Anderson brings up important points on balancing environmental protection and global costs of living. Are parts of our environmental protection effort creating unnecessary scarcity? Are countries’ economic protections driving prices up artificially? I’d add some questions of my own. Are we pushing for or supporting government policies that [...]
At TED 2006, Hans Rosling presented some cool data visualizations created to shed light on trends in Human Development (specifically health and economic prosperity). He and his nonprofit Gapminder have done some cool things with visualization to bring out aspects of the data that get ignored, but as he notes, we haven’t got the holy [...]
Seeking new technologies to leverage a couple months ago, I had an opportunity to review microformats as a way of making content more portable on a site project. Content + microformats = crazy delicious It’s easy to find developers and markup standardistas lauding microformats as the next great thing, and as a currently-implementable stepping stone [...]
Tools for the task As a means of facilitating interdisciplinary thinking and to help enfranchize informal learners, Burke presented a knowledge map project he’s been working on called the Knowledge Web. Through this tool and others like it, Burke hopes we will foster a more relational approach to learning and learn to think more innovatively. [...]
Barriers to innovation Our institutions Burke also made reference to institutions frustrating innovation because they are based on the problems, solutions, and knowledge of the past, and are continually looking backward, hoping to continue to innovate based on what straight lines of discovery they can extend from that past knowledge. The problem with this otherwise [...]
James Burke recently presented at BYU, where I earned my undergrad degree, and thanks to my brother catching it, I was able to see a rebroadcast this past week. The presentation impressed me to where I feel compelled to share at least some of the ideas covered over a set of upcoming posts, followed by [...]