I suggest that the design of information software should be approached initially and primarily as a graphic design project.

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Twenty years later, despite thousand-fold improvements along every technological dimension, the concepts behind today’s interfaces are almost identical to those in the initial Mac.

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The future will be context-sensitive. The future will not be interactive.

Fascinating story, from no less an authority than the NSA, of the cracking of the Enigma.

Much has been written about IKEA’s remarkably effective retail formula. The Economist has investigated the group’s no less astonishing finances.

What emerges is an outfit that ingeniously exploits the quirks of different jurisdictions to create a charity, dedicated to a somewhat banal cause, that is not only the world’s richest foundation, but is at the moment also one of its least generous.

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Clearly, the Kamprad family pays the same meticulous attention to tax avoidance as IKEA does to low prices in its stores.