The internet will collapse soon when the Apple Event begins, so let's get this up fast. I'm curious about the so-called iWatch; I've no idea why I would need one. I was trained by the smartphone revolution not to look at my wrist to tell the time, but to take out my phone like a 19th century man pulling a timepiece out of a vest pocket. And now we're supposed to go back to watches, albeit watches that can pay for something at the checkout counter by beaming your credit card numbers at the terminal.
If that's the case, then an entirely new series of gestures will arise. Do you form a fist when you beam? Hold your hand straight out like some Roman oath of allegiance? Back-hand the terminal? Wave?
What if it's not a watch at all, but something else?
I do know that whatever they release, the naysaying is going to be loud, it will be an affront to Steve Jobs for some reason, it will be called too expensive, Android watches did that last year, and it will sell a ton. And next year when they bring out a new version with incremental improements, there will be articles about how Apple no longer innovates.
URBANISM The Guardian takes a look at the new World Trade Center, and asks:
Because they chose the wrong architect and approved the wrong project? My antennae started to quiver early in the piece, because the author describes 4 WTC as "sublime." Looks like the Campell-Methun Tower to me, albeit better proportioned.
VotDThis is an excellent metaphor for any human endeavor that begins with everyone united in purpose and strategy:
