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“We live in a time when the institutions that run society are struggling to cope with the complexities of the real world, and so they retreat into simplified versions of it.” Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation 2016 Complexity makes people nervous. And when institutions get overwhelmed, they don’t reach for transparency — they reach for control. Or…
In her 1994 essay, “Pandora’s Vox: On Community in Cyberspace,” Carmel Hermosillo astutely observes that the advent of computer networks and the digital age has not necessarily resulted in a reduction of hierarchy or the democratization of information. Instead, she sheds light on how these technological advances have led to the commodification of personal identity…
Explore how established enterprises can fall into the trap of their own success, using Barnes & Noble’s response to the eBook revolution as a case study, and learn strategies to foster innovation and avoid disruption.
“Every abandoned tool in your tech stack tells a story about a decision no one made” Most tech stacks aren’t pristine ecosystems. They’re haunted houses. Dig a little and you’ll find zombie applications no one uses, tools from vendors long forgotten, and shadow workflows left behind by employees who no longer work there. These aren’t…
Several years ago a wonderful former colleague of mine told me the old story about NASA spending a fortune developing a pen that could write in zero gravity, while the simpler answer would have been to use a pencil. The story is not quite as clean as the legend suggests, but the lesson still holds…
The Great Library of Alexandria is often seen as a tragic loss in history. But what if we view its destruction as an early form of cyber warfare? Looking back, the library was a hub of ancient knowledge, storing scrolls from various civilizations. Instead of chalking up its demise to accidents or conflicts, consider the…