Virtual TravelogThoughts and essays by John R. Harris on System Design, The Internet, Globalization, Complexity, and Technology.Source Code as History- December 30, 2003 When the history of early software development is written it will be a travesty. Few historians will have the ability, and even fewer the inclination, to learn long dead programming languages. History will be derived from the documentation not the source code.http://www.virtualtravelog.net/entries/2003/12/source_code_as_history.html Visualizing the Shrinking World- December 11, 2003 The changing relationships between time, distance, information, and money are at the heart of today's globalization trends. The cost of a 3-minute transatlantic phone call is an interesting metric since it fixes distance and the amount of information. These diagrams literally replace distance with cost and graphically show how the world is "shrinking" from a cost of information exchange perspective.http://www.virtualtravelog.net/entries/2003/12/visualizing_the_shrinking_world.html |