April 4, 2012
"The New Aesthetic is “collectively intelligent.” It’s diffuse, crowdsourcey, and made of many small pieces loosely joined. It is rhizomatic, as the people at Rhizome would likely tell you. It’s open-sourced, and triumph-of-amateurs. It’s like its logo, a bright cluster of balloons tied to some huge, dark and lethal weight."

— An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com

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Filed under: behaviour theory 
February 17, 2012
"Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions. The most prescient prophet might receive an iPad 2 in 2050. But if the past is any guide, this prediction will almost surely be wrong."

— Predicting the Future of Computing - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

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Filed under: theory technology timelines 
February 17, 2012
"Criticism allows people to dig below the surface of the imagination and come up with collective ideas that aren’t predictable. And recognizing the importance of conflicting perspectives in a group raises the issue of what kinds of people will work together best."

— Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker

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Filed under: theory design 
February 17, 2012
"TWO RECENT ARTICLES ARGUE THAT BRAINSTORMING DOESN’T MAKE PEOPLE MORE CREATIVE. SO HOW MIGHT WE REMAKE THE BRAINSTORMING PROCESS, GIVEN WHAT SCIENCE TELLS US?"

— The Brainstorming Process Is B.S. But Can We Rework It? | Co.Design: business innovation design

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Filed under: theory design 
January 26, 2012
"The basic premise of design research is that spending time in the contexts where people do the things that they do can inform and inspire the design process with a nuanced understanding of what drives people’s behaviour—which can then used as a foundation for understanding and exploring the opportunities for new products and services. More often than not the process leads to innovating on what already exists."

— Imperialist Tendencies | Blog | design mind

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Filed under: theory design 
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