Of the many things Steve Jobs will be remembered for, his view on how design aesthetics, creativity, and technology should be closely interwoven has particular resonance for engineers. In expounding upon how the arts and humanities were closely bound to the technical engineering demands at Apple, Jobs...
In Superfreakonomics , Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s best-selling sequel to their 2005 hit Freakonomics , they write of an individual “so polymathic as to make an everyday polymath tremble with shame.” That individual is Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft...