Fascinante história de como a idéia de código aberto se aplica a todos os campos do conhecimento. Inovação, tecnologia e open source com um só objetivo: criar um cookie que além de gostoso seja saudável.

Livro de Tom Kelley, General Manager da IDEO, uma das maiores e mais inovadoras agências de design do mundo, com mais um framework criativo baseado em personas.

O maravilhoso livro de Roger von Oech explica o framework "Explorador, Artista, Juiz e Guerreiro" e uma série de técnicas que estimulam o pensamento inovador e ajudam a resolver problemas de forma criativa.

I predict Front Row will soon boast even more features and spread to all Mac products. We already know it works on other Mac models. A key to Front Row's growth will be a wireless Airport Express that's capable of transmitting video and audio from the media on your Mac to screens throughout your house. Apple's probably planning to offer such a device that also allows display of the Front Row interface on whichever screen you're watching and maybe also a small receiver for the remote that you can place near each screen; better yet, they'd be combined into one unit.

Excelente matéria no Mac Daily News sobre possíveis produtos baseados no Front Row... Pessoalmente acredito muito nessa idéia de um Airport Express que além de tocar música toca vídeo também, (e não tô sozinho nessa)... Veja que interessante isso aqui também.

"Work is the very opposite of creation, which is play. The world only began to get something of value from me the moment I stopped being a serious member of society and became - myself. The State, the nation, the united nations of the world, were nothing but one great aggregation of individuals who repeated the mistakes of their forefathers. They were caught in the wheel from birth and they kept at it until death - and this treadmill they tried to dignify by calling it "life."
- Henry Mil1er, The Revolution of Everyday Life

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. A few years ago, no college or university would ever have considered inviting one of us to speak. We were mercifully confined to lurid pulp magazines, impressing no one. In those days, friends would say me, "But are you writing anything serious?" meaning "Are you writing anything other than science fiction?" We longed to be accepted. We yearned to be noticed. Then, suddenly, the academic world noticed us, we were invited to give speeches and appear on panels and immediately we made idiots of ourselves. The problem is simply this: What does a science fiction writer know about? On what topic is he an authority?

Phillip K. Dick, um dos maiores escritores de ficção científica do mundo, autor dos contos e histórias que deram origem a filmes como Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, entre outros, fala sobre o ofício. Vale a pena conferir.

Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world's most innovative company

Unlike plain-vanilla browsers such as Microsoft's (MSFT ) Internet Explorer, Flock's browser is built specifically for a new, emerging generation of Web users, one that isn't satisfied passively browsing media online.

It's always important for a tech company to monitor what's going on in the consumer market. Too often consumer technology is relegated to stepsister status and not considered real hardcore technology. The crossover phenomenon is real and can dramatically change the business market.

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"In the art of the early Renaissance... the starting point of production is to be fount mostly not in the creative urge, the subjective self-expression and spontaneous inspiration of the artist, but in the task set by the customer".

Página de Eric van Hippel, professor do MIT Sloan Business School, com seus estudos, artigos e livros sobre open-source.

Based on interviews with 91 internationally recognized creative people-among them Nobel physicist John Bardeen, arts administrator-performer Kitty Carlisle Hart, writer Denise Levertov, jazz musician Oscar Peterson, electronics executive Robert Galvin-this book offers a highly readable anatomy of creativity. As Csikzentmihalyi (Flow) argues, creativity requires not only unusual individuals, but a culture and field of experts that can foster and validate such work. Most creative people, the author suggests, have dialectic personalities: smart yet naive, both extroverted and introverted, etc. Expanding on his previous book, Csikszentmihalyi suggests that complex and challenging work exemplifies fully engaged "flow." Synthesizing study results, he reports that none of the interviewees was popular during adolescence; while they were not necessarily more brilliant than their college peers, they displayed more "concentrated attention." Later, they kept a consistent focus on future work. The author reminds us that while individuals can make their own opportunities, a supportive society offering resources and rewards can foster creativity.

Sophisticated tools that let individuals take part in the process of creation, the internet as a means to draw together communities of like-minded people, a willingness to share ideas for the common good - these are the basic ingredients of a new approach to innovation.

De acordo com o psicólogo Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (vou colocar a referência num proximo post) a criatividade não é um fator inerente a alguns seres humanos especiais. É, na verdade, um somatório de fatores contextuais que tornam o ambiente propício a novas descobertas, que eventualmente são feitas por indivíduos com o conhecimento certo, na hora certa.

Nesse sentido talvez o movimento open-source, ao contrário do que pensa o repórter do Financial Times supra-citado, seja na verdade uma nova Renascença - grandes mudanças ideológicas criando um ambiente extremamente fértil caracterizado principalmente pelo compartilhamento das descobertas e realizações, onde os valores da comunidade estão acima dos valores do indivíduo.

Acho o movimento open-source fascinante. E fico imaginando o conceito aplicado a outras áreas do conhecimento: open-source marketing, open-source media, democracia open-source, e por ai vai.

Abundância, Outsourcing e Automação. Como essas três coisas estão mudando o mercado de trabalho e conseqüentemente o futuro da nossa sociedade? Daniel H. Pink mostra porque o mercado de trabalho cada vez mais precisa de profissionais que unem à capacidade analítica uma visão mais humana, holística e criativa.

Yesterday's edition of Knowledge@Wharton included an interesting article on research done by Sheen S. Levine, a Singapore Management University professor who recently received his PhD from Wharton. Considering the value of "performative ties," Levine suggests that critical knowledge can be transferred via impromptu communications made by colleagues who are strangers - with no expectation of a quid pro quo.