Monthly Archive: January 2010

Jan
25

EG 2010 Decompression

Colossally improbable. This is how Berkeley professor Walter Alvarez described the odds of a single human being defying a set of historical contingencies to have been born. “Each one of us is a winner in the most pitiless game of chance ever devised,” he said. Simple, yet incredibly profound. A perception altering statement, and one …

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Jan
08

FoF News: IDEO’s Bill Moggridge Named Cooper-Hewitt Director

Introducing FoF News, where we’ll share information about Friends of FORA.tv. First up, Bill Moggridge. The founder of noted design firm IDEO will become the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He’s the first “designer in job” to run the esteemed institution. Read the release and coverage by the New York Times. Congratulations to …

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