It seems surprising that Airbus has conceived a system preventing one pilot from easily assessing the actions of the colleague beside him. And yet that is how their latest generations of aircraft are designed. #HCI
The mission of the Institute of Design at Stanford, on a napkin:
OUR INTENT: CREATE THE BEST DESIGN SCHOOL. PERIOD
prepare FUTURE INNOVATORS to be breakthrough thinkers & doers.
use DESIGN THINKING to inspire multidisciplinary teams
foster RADICAL COLLABORATION between students, faculty & industry
tackle BIG PROJECTS and use prototyping to discover new solutions
STANFORD d.school
We suspect that as the Wikidata Project begins to provide “trust and provenance” in its form of web communications, they will not just be granularizing single facts but also immutabilizing the data elements to which those facts are linked so that even the content providers of those data elements cannot change them. This is critical for trust and provenance in whole chain communications between supply chain participants who have never directly interacted.
“Microsoft Is The Best!” — Unnamed Microsoft Employee
MG Seigler piles on “the known knowns”. “We also know there are known unknowns” - Microsoft changing to cross-platform and open source support (really, Hadoop, Node.js, .NET commits). “But there are also unknown unknowns” - No Steve Jobs - Forrester: Apple is Entering a Long Decline
Earlier today, I wrote an anti-Microsoft post. Actually, it wasn’t so anti-Microsoft, I thought I was decidedly fair. My thesis was basically that Microsoft was done in the consumer space, but that they’d continue to do well as an enterprise company going forward.
Essentially, they’d follow the IBM path. Nothing wrong with that. IBM is still a great company, they’re just different from what they once were.
For some reason though, all anyone cares about is the consumer space. And, let’s be honest, Apple now owns it. If it’s not clear to you now, it will be in a year. Or two years max. It’s just the way it is.
In five years, Microsoft will be known as an enterprise company. That’s not controversial in my book, it’s just an observation on where things are headed.
Anyway…
