I've seen a lot of technological/design advances in the news, on blogs, facebook, etc. this week, and it occurred to me that designers, in addition to all of the other skills they need to have, are sometimes expected to be engineers as well. As the
wired.com blog
Beyond the Beyond shows, sometimes things generate a buzz just because they've combined some new technology with a flair for design and usefulness (say, as in
designing a chair that folds and unfolds, like the proposed idea for Roombots). Most of the time it seems that designers draw up an idea and then go about finding technologically savvy people to help them put it together, or vice versa (engineers make something amazing that doesn't look so great and find designers to make it cool).
The designer that has a good grasp on aesthetic beauty and creativity as well as the same technological ability of the engineers they're used to seeking out for projects such as these would be really popular.
And really rich.
Buzzword!
Cloud computing : storing your information “in the cloud”, in a place that is accessible from different computers (like the internet!). It’s the opposite of simply storing something on your personal computer. A blog like this, for example, is simply me making notes that get stored on a public server.
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