Interesting interviews
In the past i wasn’t too fond of interviews, but lately i’ve started enjoying them a lot. Today two great interviews arrived in my aggregator.
The thing with a good interview i can enjoy is that there’s usually exactly one point or statement that captures my interest and gets me thinking, preferably introducing new ideas, adding context or broadening my view on things. And because i’m a lazy bum and don’t wanna summarize or paraphrase, i’ll simply quote the parts i found most interesting in these interviews:
First there’s this interview with Howard Rheingold @bwonline:
All these could dramatically transform not only the way people do business, but economic production altogether. We had markets, then we had capitalism, and socialism was a reaction to industrial-era capitalism. There’s been an assumption that since communism failed, capitalism is triumphant, therefore humans have stopped evolving new systems for economic production.
Never crossed my mind that there might be something lurking beyond capitalism… i’ll need a lot more thinking about this.
And then there’s this interview with Yuri Gitman @thefeature:
Let’s start by making viable interfaces for high-adrenaline and high-risk situations and activities, and then apply them to everyday mobile interfaces.
Our current interfaces are still clumsy, slow, distracting, and not safe for people physically in motion.
And while i’m linking some interesting interviews: there’s also been a 5-part series of interviews with academics researching mobile communications @thefeature which i almost missed (just recently resubscribed - they improved a lot since i last unsubscribed…). Haven’t read them all yet, so i’ll just put the links in this post for future reference: Mikael Wiberg, Carsten S??rensen, Niki Panteli, David Allen and Kristov Nyiri.