Downloading 1GB of data may use as much as two hundred litres of water. Bora Ristic, Imperial College London via the BBC World Service
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Oftentimes, our IT departments attempt to solve the problem through the procurement of new technologies that come with the promise of improving findability only to find that <strong>the more technology we throw at the problem, the more complex it becomes</strong> and the further behind we fall.
Nearly half of all 18-29 year olds (45%) who use the internet on their cell phones do most of their online browsing on their mobile device.
Apple, like all designers, has traditionally borrowed the ideas of others. It has succeeded by focussing on making an idea more realisable, desirable and useful than its competition and then continuing to iterate it over time — essentially a tension between their marketing slogan "Think Different" and Jonathan Ive's design principle "be better, not different". However has Apple’s track record…
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.