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Jonathan Ive, Design and Apple

And his design process revolves around intense iteration — making and remaking models to visualize new concepts. “One of the hallmarks of the team I think is this sense of looking to be wrong,” said Ive at Radical Craft. “It’s the inquisitiveness, the sense of exploration. It’s about being excited to be wrong because then you’ve discovered something new.”

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Online search and privacy: Mutually exclusive?

Information saved by search firms is a greater threat to privacy than out-of-date account data maintained by telecommunication companies like Qwest, because analyzing a user’s queries over time can provide remarkable insight into the person’s thoughts, habits, and lifestyle. Misuse of search histories is a threat to privacy that has been getting significant media attention in the last year. The threat is often downplayed because most users don’t believe that anyone could or would reconstruct their search history—and even if someone did, many people suspect nothing personal would be revealed

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