Rough Types

From Nicholas Carr, of Rough Type comes this:

A brief piece, Paradise Lost, on how the copybot excursions in Second Life caused Aleks Krotoski to say "Inspired by this milestone, I'm going to add a wing to my new lab. And inside will be a shrine to CopyBot, the little hack that transformed Second Life into a real world."

The great technology historian Thomas P. Hughes introduced the phrase, "reverse salients". ... In my new column on business innovation for Strategy & Business, The Weakest Link, I describe how the idea of reverse salients can also help companies make smart decisions about where to invest in innovation and where to look for competitive advantage.

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