av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 11, 2018 | Ted
One of the most significant design opportunities in recent history was announced with a simple blog post on Apple’s website. “Let me just say it: We want native third-party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February,” Steve Jobs wrote. On a quiet Thursday morning less than a year later, the App Store opened to iPhone users with a selection of just over 500 apps.
Few contemporary innovations have changed how we live our lives and interact with the world around us more than iPhone apps. The creators of the first 500 available at launch had the unique opportunity of shaping the design direction and interaction methods of the millions of apps created since.
Källa: 10 years of the App Store: The design evolution of the earliest apps
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 10, 2018 | Ted
The Chinese internet has grown at a staggering pace — it now has more users than the combined populations of the US, UK, Russia, Germany, France and Canada.
Even with its imperfections, the lives of once-forgotten populations have been irrevocably elevated because of it, says South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu. In a fascinating talk, Liu details how the tech industry in China has developed — from the innovative, like AI-optimized train travel, to the dystopian, like a social credit rating that both rewards and restricts citizens.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 9, 2018 | Ted
Tim Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence.
Källa: “I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 9, 2018 | Ted
What does the endless death watch for the President’s chief of staff tell us about the worst-run White House of modern times?
Is John Kelly finally on his way out? Now that President Trump has accepted the resignation of his embattled E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt, the fate of his embattled chief of staff is the key drama of this drama-plagued Administration. Last July, when Kelly was appointed to the job, the retired Marine general was portrayed as a no-nonsense savior, who would “restore order” to Trump’s feuding, factionalized White House. But in recent months the question has become not whether Kelly could tame Trump but how soon Trump would get rid of Kelly.
Källa: John Kelly, Scott Pruitt, and the Epic Turnover of the Trump Administration
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 9, 2018 | Ted
This Fourth of July holiday, there was more than one set of fireworks in the sky. As America celebrated its birthday, the internet fawned over the latest viral Twitter thread, a meet-cute between two strangers on a flight from New York to Dallas, as documented by the woman sitting behind them.
https://twitter.com/roseybeeme/status/1014122893805015041
Källa: Slate
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 8, 2018 | Ted
What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a ”religion for atheists” — call it Atheism 2.0 — that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.
