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By Bob Rosenschein A funny thing happened on our way to product launch. We were happy with part of our product — the display component — but other functionality needed more work. We realized it is not enough just showing…

From Consent to Conversation

Rethinking Public Voice in Local Government By Ruthie Amaru The Foundation of Democracy When Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in The Social Contract (1762), “The people, being subject to the laws, ought to be their author,” he laid the foundation for modern…

The Power of Pause

Could Video Make Online Discussions More Thoughtful? By Ruthie Amaru Raichle’s Brain Networks: Action vs. Default Neuroscientist Marcus Raichle, along with colleagues Nico Dosenbach and Evan Gordon, helped map two distinct brain systems—each anchored in different brain regions and tuned…

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Dennis Ritchie

By Bob Rosenschein When Dennis Ritchie invented modern software along with Ken Thompson and wrote the immortal “C Programming Language” book with Brian Kernighan, their first pristine example was a program to display two words: “hello world!” It struck me as a fun start to…