“I’m not so nerdy as to suggest that you read Harry Potter as an idea manual for next-generation product development. But the books are filled with examples of products that we’ll soon be able to build, and they do provide some idea of what it might mean to embody awareness in the physical world. ” A rare essay that communicates something of interest to the general public, from Jakob Nielsen
—In the Future, We Will All be Harry PotterUseIT.com)
Similar:
A crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad ad
Have you seen Apple's "Crush" ad? It fea...
Aesthetics
14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985
I used something very similar to this sh...
Culture
''The Balloon Hoax'' by Edgar Allan Poe
When steampunk was speculative fiction, ...
Amusing
My J-Term course on August Wilson doesn’t actually start until tomorrow, but the first ass...
We’ll cover all 10 plays, but each stude...
Academia
Watching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ with 18,000 teenagers was one of the most profound theate...
The arts are vital to our lives as human...
Books
Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?
Though not in a hospital setting, the ...
Culture
