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Software May Be Eating The World, But Open Source Software Is Eating Itself
emergentfutures: Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen posits, but open-source software seems to be eating itself. And at a far faster clip. While the software world has grown used to products and their vendors dominating for long stretches (think: Microsoft in operating systems and Oracle in databases), the new world of open source…
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the sort of factors rigorously documented in Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine 3 Signs You Are Too Creative for a 9-to-5 – James Hamblin – The Atlantic This phrase is funny for its uncritical use of words about Jonah Lehrer. The pernicious thing about finding out about Lehrer’s plagiarisms and creativity with facts is that we don’t…
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Blurred people in architectural drawings: Welcome to the Postnormal
stoweboyd: Joep Jacobs In a world of real and imagined pressures to move fast, architects are rendering people as ballistic objects, hurling through designed spaces: Sue Shellenbarger, How Busy Colleagues Spread Secondhand Stress – WSJ.com Architects have begun blurring human figures in drawings of new-office projects, to appeal to clients who aspire to active, high-energy workplaces,…