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.