Nice clip. The bit about the payphones reminded me of an interview with Jonathan Ive where he talked about why they put a handle on the first iMac. He said that making it easy to carry was part of it, but that the bigger motivation was when people saw a handle, the computer immediately became something tactile and open, inviting you to touch it. That really crystalized the all-encompassing nature of good design for me.
"... Nice clip. The bit about the payphones reminded me of an interview with Jonathan Ive where he talked about why they put a handle on the first iMac. ..."
Stirling really has a great sense of what design is really about and talks about things thoughtfully. It's from him I learnt about thinglinks ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/209837076 ), spimes. Stirling even writes intro books before he writes for real. Funny though, the last time I heard him talking about google was about how it sucked ~ "The Internet of Things", ITConversation, 57min, 26Mb ... http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail717.html
