CTO Blog

Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.

As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.

This issue:

• How Crocs rakes in the revenue from ugly shoes [Business Pundit]
  Sometimes your core product is not what it appears to be.
• Step back, look around, peer ahead [Business Week]
  Technology can be a driver of innovation, but technology is no end game in and of itself. Rather, thinking about technology’s impact on the world, of how we’ll work, live, play and exist, is a way to ensure that developments are meaningful and longer lasting.
• The boy from Chingford who puts the bite into Apple's iconic design [The Independent]
  How did Apple create the iPhone? Or how did it create any of the company's category defining products? Obliquity seems to have a strong influence—achieving a goal indirectly by focusing on another. Their goal is simply to make great products.
• Modern Times [Paleo-Future]
  Predicting the future is hard, as we see when Donald Duck tours the Museum of Modern Marvels. The museum is full of wonderfully ridiculous inventions from the future such as the pneumatic pencil sharpener, peanut sheller, robotic nurse maid, old razor blade mangler, robotic hitch-hiker's aid, potato peeler, the hydraulic potato peeler, mechanical bottle opener, and the automatic bundle wrapper.