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OK, so this is slightly tangential, and not really a discussion topic in itself, but it should get you thinking, and talking...

If you have any interest at all in the origins of the business we work in, and care to know how the hardware and software that shaped it came to be the way it is, then consult Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge, founder of product design company IDEO, and designer of the first laptop computer. It is packed full of discussion material.

In the book, on the DVD, and on the website, he interviews nearly forty major contributors to the development of personal computing and hypermedia in all its guises, from Doug Engelbart (inventor of the mouse) to John Meada (associate professor of design and computation at MIT).

It reminded me of all the reasons I got inspired by this stuff in the first place. Absolutely indispensable.

Check it out at the website: http://www.designinginteractions/chapters