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-The definition of civic engagement is evolving.

A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:

Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play

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Long overlooked, seniors are now increasingly comfortable using the web and deeply engaged on social platforms.

Hence, Elizabeth Warren famously proposed that ‘if you run the platform you can’t compete on it’, which sounds good, until you realise this means that you’ve just banned Google Maps on Android. If this is your principle, a platform can’t do anything that anyone else might want to do. So your new iPhone has no calendar app, and no camera app, and no... See more

In the same way that social media turned a lot of people in publishers, I think that VR is going to turn a lot of people into architects

we have another value of start by asking what could be which is pushing ourselves to be as aspirationally ambitious as possible so the peak feature that you mentioned we just didn't want to solve the problem context switching we wanted to almost blur the line between native and web software and make it feel like a sheet of paper you know and and

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