Just back from CHI. How quickly we slip from what use is a digital watch ( on the BBC) to this 11 must-have Apple Watch apps | Computerworld
A reminder if we need one about how we underestimate developer creativity. It's easy to forget how un-imaginative most people (including journalists and those that fill up box after box on user comments) are.
On the plane back from Korea I watched both Castles in the sky ( English development of radar) The Imitation game ( first computer and enigma code) , and Sambusters ( first Dam smashing bouncing bomb Barns Wallis). Each of them played on the immense social difficulties that the inventors had to struggle against to get their ideas excepted.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
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