The late Christopher Alexander’s groundbreaking work on patterns has informed the development of technology for decades, but it’s the architect’s later work that holds the key to a healthier digital life.
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Articles on Steve Jobs
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Despite its ‘innovator’ status, Apple usually wasn’t the first one to offer groundbreaking new features. But it knew how to adopt existing features in groundbreaking ways.
A fruitarian diet is a more restrictive form of veganism, and not one to be recommended.
Podcasting exploded due to the lack of gatekeepers. Now big tech companies are starting to act like traditional media networks, signing popular hosts to exclusive contracts and establishing paywalls.
The film about old toys and new turns 25 this year. Heralded as the first computer animated film, a re-examination indicates it was cautiously innovative rather than a complete break with the past.
Tech companies use product launches to position themselves as the heroes of the digital revolution.
Some will point to Apple’s lost talisman as the reason for the company’s current woes. They needn’t bother.
Leaders in private and public organizations should seek creative problem-solving skills to better innovate. Design thinking may be the answer.
To become a successful innovator, follow Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi and today’s female social entrepreneurs – focus on ideas and social value, not money.
Silicon Valley’s chip supplier de choix scored a massive own goal with smartphones. If it has got driverless cars wrong too, it could be goodnight Santa Clara.
There are some benefits to the uptick in billionaire newspaper and magazine owners, who can weather short-term losses for the sake of long-term gains. But whose interests are really being served?
Society needs intelligent and mature leaders. Acquiring such skills is a lifelong process.
Apple is already the biggest company in the world and looks set to grow even faster in the future. Is that necessarily a good thing?
The latest Steve Jobs film does not shy away from showing the darker sides of his character and the cult of leadership that surrounded him.
What is it about modern digital technology that inspires suspicion rather than trust?
An extraordinary decade of change has ensured there is now no clear blue water around any business sector.
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease. With a ten-year survival rate of just 1%, it has the poorest prognosis of all solid tumours. The main reason for this is that tumours of the pancreas largely…
The American reviews of Yukari Iwatani Kane’s book Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs have not been kind. Having covered Apple for three years as a journalist at the Wall Street Journal, Kane would…
There is some controversy about what we mean by the word “hacker”. Historically, and as far back as the 1960s, a hacker was someone who was an expert programmer. But today, it is a word generally used…
If you’re reading this, Apple thanks you. So does the Air Aroma scent marketing company and the Australian artist collective Greatest Hits. They’re thanking you for the free advertising supplied by this…
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Business IT & Logistics, RMIT University
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Strategy and Policy, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Research Associate, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Reader in Leadership and Organisation Studies, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
