Quotes of the week

When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.

- William Burroughs

We don’t get to stop yet. In fact, we probably aren’t going to stop in my lifetime. I’ve made my peace with the idea that every solution I work on, every innovation I’m part of and every exciting development I eagerly enjoy is a step on the way somewhere else. Everything we are currently doing is temporary.

- Mary Hamilton

Articles of the week

• Popular Science: German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space
  In a somewhat larger-than-usual DIY project, a group of hackers and IT experts announced plans to build an alternative infrastructure for uncensored internet. Meet The Hackerspace Global Grid, a network of communication satellites that serves as the new backbone. Welcome to the future, everyone.
• BERG: Gardens and Zoos
  BERG Principal Matt Jones presents a good overview of the thinking behind their current work. A good briefing on AI, UI and a lot of other design-based concepts.
• The Verge: KLM to let airline travelers choose seating partners based on social media profiles
  Dutch airline KLM is taking some of the surprise out of air travel with Meet & Seat, a new program that will let passengers pick who they sit next to using social networking tools. This might turn out great or really quite annoying, but we expect to see more programs like this soon.
• Fast Company: This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
  Excellent article about the way the world is changing with increasing speed, and in increasingly chaotic ways: “The next decade or two will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The most valuable insight is that we are, in a critical sense, in a time of chaos.”
• Big Spaceship : 2011: What We Learned
  In a pretty neat summary of learnings of the last year, the Big Spaceship teams reflects on the day-to-day agency work as well as a litmus test for quality, cutting out distractions, the merits of offline time and saying “I don’t know” more often.