Rockstars of Design: Morning Report 11/12/13

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare

Pictured Above: The original Star Wars cast and crew setting up the climactic scene of Return of the Jedi during which Luke Skywalker fights his now-uncloseted father, Darth Vader.

Relevant and less-than-relevant goings-on from around the interwebs:

  • Two-Lane Highway: Why converging your networks is not such a black-and-white idea. That being said, a singular ecosystem is desirable for some, such as Facebook for their marketing campaign. [Ars Technica, The Next Web]
  • A New Way of Thinking: A new theory suggests that your personalitly may not come down to right- and left-brained as we had previously thought. [The Atlantic]
  • Meanwhile, scientists — whatever-brained they may be — have built transit, or tiny biological machinery, engineered for lugging around molecular cargo. [Ars Technica]
  • Now even algorithms are thinking like humans. With that and A.I., we're seriously f*cked. [Fast.Co Labs]
  • Jony Ive and Marc Newson, the geniuses behind countless designs that have undoubtedly affected your lives, discuss their contribution, a collaboration with Bono, to Sotheby's (RED) Auction, celebrating the best in design and innovation. [Sotheby's]
  • Bill Gates on how to improve the world. [Wired]
  • A day after Veteran's Day, a look into how soldiers employ dark humor to better plan and execute oft-life threatening missions. [Esquire]
  • War does not discriminate between enemy strongholds and architectural artifacts. An organization is utilizing 3D scans to make sure collateral damage isn't a death sentence. [CyArk]

Also, did you know... Luke Skywalker was almost named Luke Starkiller. [The Atlantic]