After I ran a panel at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in 2010 (Imagineering a Fully Digitized and Connected Future), I played around with writing a book about life in the 21st Century. The book didn’t pan out, but I liked the interview I did with Bror Saxberg and I wanted to share it with you all. Bror is the Chief Learning Officer for Kaplan, but that doesn’t really give you a sense of the man. He practiced medicine after earning his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and he’s got a Ph.D. for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and a Masters from Oxford plus a couple of more degrees from the University of Washington … you getting the idea?
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Design Solves Problems
Design is what it does and what it does is solve problems.
Words and the way we use them cheapen our understanding of design. We screw it up in both directions; sometimes we add modifiers to break the granite of design down into so many pebbles, while other times it floats away from us after we over-inflate it as Design with a capital D.
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Make It Semantic from the Start
The publishing industry would be in much better shape if it could just stop concentrating on publishing things. Newspaper companies should be tremendous engines feeding a ridiculous variety of publishing vehicles, but they can’t do that as long as their tools are focused on delivery.
Find Love in the Time of Curation
When it comes to curation, I think there’s good news and bad news.
Curation is “the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.” (That’s the Cranky definition actor and dilettante media analyst Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave in a recent Esquire magazine interview.)
Design It Like a Roller Coaster
As a result of explosive growth in the use of self-describing code and the increasingly sophisticated application of metadata, online content is getting smarter every day. As content gets smarter, controlling that content gets not only more difficult, but also less appropriate.