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Archive: July 2012
I’m convinced that we are living our analogy to the Industrial revolution. Call it Information revolution or whatever, but we see the profound changes happening and I think we have seen nothing yet.
Therefore I try to learn about Industrial revolution and seek some sort of hint of what we could expect.
I found this six-part documentary The Day the World Took Off
This 6-series documentary films address the puzzle of the origins of Industrial Revolution. The central question: why did a scraggy little rainswept island off the coast of mainland Europe become the first major industrial centre, when so many other parts of the world, such as China, with its great history of inventions – looked more promising? The story starts on a single momentous day in Liverpool, a day that shows the best and worst aspects of the Industrial Revolution. We then look back 100 years, then 250, then 500, then 1000, until 10000 years – to the third millennium of the modern era.
If you have tips for other sources, let me know.
Documentary on teaching and design by Inge Druckrey produced by Edward Tufte.
Via @rjs
Nice set of online generators that might save you time brought to us by Ui Parade. Go play with Button Builder, Form Builder, Icon Builder, Ribbon Builder.
I did some research around the window.devicePixelRatio property that all WebKit browsers, as well as Opera, support, and for once the news is good. This property’s definition makes sense, and it is implemented almost universally.
Via @daringfireball
I admire Gates’ approach to phillatrophy, I disagree with his (and Microsoft’s) view, that Surface will be the best of both the desktop PC and tablet – as Microsoft’s repeated many times “no compromises”. You only need to look at the photo of Surface and you already see compromises. Does that look like a comfortable keyboard and trackpad? Does that kickstand work for other use cases than on proping it on the table?
Anyway, 80 % of the interview is focused on the phillantrophy and Gates’ view of other topics, like education, innovation, politics and others.
Go watch the interview on Charlie Rose site. It’s worth it.
Despite internal turmoil, massive fiscal losses, and plummeting marketshare, RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins believes there is “nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now.”
…for new Git and GitHub users to try both the tool and the service without a single bit of software installation.
As we just passed 5 year anniversary of iPhone going on sale it’s fitting to look back.
Asymco linked to his post from 2010 which goes nicely with my article about disruption and web applications.
So the iPhone seems to be correctly classified as a sustaining innovation. Something that moves the phone market forward and which, except for a temporary misallocation of profits, will entrench the incumbents after they manage to copy it effectively.However, here is where we have to dig a little deeper.