Sir Arthur C. Clarke, on the ‘digital-divide’:

“When printing was invented, somebody said this is very interesting but what good is it when nobody can read?”

And yet-to-be-knighted Steve Jobs on tablet PC’s and the non-demise of the keyboard:

” There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. When Apple first started out, People couldn’t type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this.”

» BBC News: Arthur C Clarke sees e-mail for all
» Interview with Steve Jobs

From my old school’s first year:

“The first project of the autumn semester invovles a trip to the beach to explore placemaking. Through the manipulation of natural materials and the use of found objects students are encouraged to create a place that expresses something of their response to the coastal environment.”

See also the good professor Unwin’s work… from the “ARCHITECTURE AS IDENTIFICATION OF PLACE” section, this corker relating back to my whole “navihate” thing:

“Place is to architecture, it may be said, as meaning is to language.”

“Information Architecture” could be said to set us up for a fall by mixing the semantic with the spatial from the get-go. Mixinyermetaphors is bad – rabbits die of it.

Egon:”I just remembered: DON”T CROSS THE STREAMS!”
Peter:”Why?”
Egon:”It would be BAD.”
Peter:”I am fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing… what do you mean BAD?”
Egon:”Try to imagine all life as you know it, stopping instantaneously,and every particle in your body exploding at the speed of light.”
Ray:”(gulp) total protonic reversal”
Peter:”Ok right that’s BAD, important safety tip thanks Egon.”

… but I will try and type up my notes from last night’s iSociety presentation this weekend whilst on trains to-and-from Stratford-Upon-Avon to visit my best mate from college and see if we can find an architectural design competition worth entering…

In the mean-time, Phil has reflected upon the evening, and there are some very good links in the comments field about ‘social capital’.

“These pages are about the work, on morphogenesis in general and Fibonacci phyllotaxis in particular, which was carried out by Alan Turing in the four or so years before his death, and which remains somewhat obscure.”

» http://www.swintons.net/jonathan/turing.htm and a related blog here.
[found via the awesome Hecklerandcoch]