history
What the advancing interface leaves behind
The way it has been made
Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less
We live in the aftermath
The tacit wisdom of the body
This is history
Like the lines of a hand
NYLA
The Story of Art
Understanding Architecture
Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design
Simon Collison's timeline
Age of Invention
A Series by Anton HowesI’m a historian of innovation. I write mostly about the causes of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, focusing on the lives of the individual innovators who made it happen. I’m interested in everything from the exploits of sixteenth-century alchemists to the schemes of Victorian engineers. My research explores why they became innovators, and the institutions they created to promote innovation even further.
Artifice, blindness, and suicide
The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.