I was once doing a one-to-one English course in London. Most of my course was based on conversations with my teacher. He went to a public school in England, spoke a very upper-class English,was cultivated and keenly interested in cultural matters. According to him there are three main traits that characterise a cultural entity. His example was the English people themselves: they are primarily known for
When I think of Operating Systems I think of Plato’s allegory of the cave. We, the users of operating systems like MAC OS or Windows, have spent our lives chained to the wall of a cave (the operating system). We watch shadows cast from the light of our fire to the opposite wall (the user interface) and we give those shadows names (applications or apps). The shadows (apps) are our (user's) reality.
Ideas are abstract and novel concepts that arise in the mind. One thing is the idea that nests in your head and another completely different thing is to communicate that idea to others in a way that they will understand it. It is reasonable that ideas need more extensive explanation than …
Ted Chu claims in his book ‘Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision for Our Future Evolution’ that humans will create a higher intelligence that will finally replace its creator. Let us now imagine..
After buying Starwars from George Lucas, Disney has done everything wrong what could be done wrong in terms of innovation and story-telling.
There is a thing that I would like to name the Essence of a brand or any other kind of story. Others might call it DNA, core values or roots. There is the notion that a company should concentrate on its core business.
What do a Thermomix, a cooking machine, and Fitbod, a fitness app, have in common? Apparently not very much, but if you look a bit closer.. . Thermomix is a kitchen machine that goes far beyond a simple food-processor, first of all, because it weighs, cooks, chops, crushes, emulsifies, whips, mixes, steams, blends, kneads, grinds simmers, grates and mills….
Mobile devices and digitization have brought many changes but most of them were concerned about remodeling enterprise processes to the advantage of companies however these are defined. On the one hand this has made many actions by consumers more direct and has eliminated in many cases a long chain of intermediaries, but on the other hand, has burdened the user of these digital devices with additional activities and in some cases with additional work…
