Leif Baradoy http://www.leifbaradoy.com Just give'r Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:45:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The near future of technology http://www.leifbaradoy.com/the-near-future-of-technology/ http://www.leifbaradoy.com/the-near-future-of-technology/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:01:25 +0000 Leif Baradoy http://www.leifbaradoy.com/?p=1941
  • Ahhh, professionalism. It doesn’t come naturally to most of us.
  • Re: No Egos
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0 How the future works. (via Fast Company)
    • ]]>     I recently spoke with a newly promoted engineer at work. He went back to school to do his MBA because he felt that his software development skills, while valuable, would become increasingly obsolete as companies outsourced to other nations and new programming tools made software engineering more available to the masses.

    The projection of my colleague aligns with the hypothesis of Roger and Mike about the future of technology (a great blog I follow): soon, building software applications will be far easier than it is today.

    This recent video from Bret Victor shows how close that future might be. There is a powerful personal message in the video as well, which is well worth the 54 minutes. If you’re a technical person, the code in this video will have you hand-clapping like a hipster on the Friday night dance floor. Whoever you are, I hope you’ll appreciate Victor’s focus on the importance of a personal, guiding principle and his drive to creative discovery.

    Edwin Herbert Land, who deeply influenced Steve Jobs, said that “industry is best at the intersection of science and art.” My excitement at the rapid pace of technological development is because, soon, the basic building blocks of new products, services, communications, and arts will better amplify human creativity.

    Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.

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  • Wandering the forest at dusk. Then, to supper with Laura.
  • Smiling image of yours truly (and testing Instagram to WP)
  • Midway through 2h run in Gowland Todd Park. Feeling grateful.
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  • Wandering the forest at dusk. Then, to supper with Laura.
  • Smiling image of yours truly (and testing Instagram to WP)
  • A test of auto-posting from Instagram to WP
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  • Seth Godin on fearlessly moving toward goal
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    The quote from Dali: “I cannot guarantee that this fragment of a dream will be well received.”

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