Long Read: The Shape of Things to Come

Ian Parker | 90 minutes

How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.

Snippets

It turns out, any walk outdoors has the potential to unlock our brains.
The Sandwalk just happened to be where the unlocking of one 19th-century brain helped change the world and our place in it.

- Jeremy DeSilva, On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

Workplaces became places to feel comfortable and at home. Colleagues became family – you wouldn’t ignore a call from family at 10PM, would you? This kind of meaning was a nutritionless husk, a crude analog to real human engagement.

- Rusty Guinn, In Praise of Work