Bill Buxton's "long nose of innovation" is the standard antidote to breakthrough mythology. A technology that seems to arrive overnight has almost always been gestating, quietly and invisibly, for decades — a long flat nose — before it reaches the steep cliff of adoption that everyone mistakes for the invention. The mouse took roughly thirty … Continue reading The Far Half of the Nose: What the Meta-Nose Can’t Compress
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The Permanence Trap
Why sacred texts, intelligence tests, and our newest machines all draw their power from seeming unchangeable — and why that is the very thing that hollows them out. The keyboard you are reading this on is badly designed, and everyone knows it. The QWERTY layout was arranged for the mechanical typewriters of the 1870s, and … Continue reading The Permanence Trap
