Amazing Video: Felix Baumgartner’s Free Fall from Space
Via GoPro (this is the sort of thing GoPro was made for!). “Sometimes you have to go up really high […]
Innovation, Space
Innovation
Design, Futures, Innovation, Sustainability
Christopher Alexander and “A Pattern Language”
Great post about Christopher Alexander’s work and influence via The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, originally published at the Metropolis
Future of the Internet, Innovation, Networks, Technology
Google’s insanely great data kingdom
Steven Levy wrote the book on Google (In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives); now Google’s
Innovation
Culturematic
Readers of this blog will be aware of my fascination with the concept and churn of culture. I’ve just run
Design, Innovation
How to Build a Better Block
Fabulous talk by Jason Roberts of “The Better Block: A Living Charrette”, presented at TedX Austin. You should watch this…
Future of the Internet, Innovation
Adriana Lukas: how to avoid hierarchies
Adriana discusses her thinking about heterarchy, including initial thoughts about five laws of heterarchy. “Hierarchies seem to be like oxygen:
Innovation, News, Technology
RIP Insanely Great Steve Jobs
When Steve Jobs left Apple recently, what seemed like premature obituaries started appearing, so he had the unusual opportunity to
Environment/Climate, Innovation, Sustainability
Alex Steffen at SXSW Eco: Carbon Zero
[View the story “Alex Steffen at SXSW Eco: Carbon Zero” on Storify]
Futures, Innovation
Neal Stephenson on Innovation Starvation
“The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation
Freedom to Connect, Futures, Innovation, Networks, Technology
Transitional Internet
I continue to be focused on the future of the Internet and aware of divergent paths. In the later 2000s,
Innovation
Chance favors the connected mind.
Steve Johnson in an animated conversation (literally) derived from the juices flowing through his book, Where Good Ideas Come From:
Futures, Innovation, Knowledge, Teaching and Learning
Gary Chapman
Hearing via Twitter that my friend Gary Chapman of the LBJ School has died. News of his death was posted
Futures, Global, Innovation, Technology
Berners-Lee: Long Live the Web
I’ve found myself giving cautionary talks on the future of the Internet, or possible futures, plural – the real danger
Freedom to Connect, Innovation, Networks, Technology
Advocating for the Open Internet
“Net neutrality” and “freedom to connect” might be loaded or vague terminologies; the label “Open Internet” is clearer, more effective,