John Maeda
Outsourced
I ventured into the fascinating space of outsourcing recently in my conversation with Mark Zetter. As you may know, I'm a big fan of key1();?>.
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Technics and Civilization
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Prescient work by a man in touch with his time. Lewis Mumford makes the early 1900s look an awfully lot like the late 1900s. And he wasn't even trying to do so. |
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Key 1: Away
More appears like less by simply moving it far, far away.
> Excerpted from Page 91 of my book, The Laws of Simplicity
At the end of LOS I list three emergent technology keys that enable simplicity.
At the end of LOS I list three emergent technology keys that enable simplicity.
Think of the power of Google which runs from a simple, lightweight text input box in your web browser to access Google’s vast network of computers and databases. You are spared having to house your own massive racks of computing equipment required to process a Google query. More appears like less by simply moving it far, far away. Thus an experience is made simpler by keeping the result local, and moving the actual work to a far away location.
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