Looking back to look forwards

Over the weeks since AU, I’ve been heads-down with writing a chapter for a book that’s due to be published in this summer. The book is about innovation in the construction industry, and my chapter will talk about opportunities related to digital twins and generative design.

Which means I haven’t had much time to write “serious” posts for this blog, of late. I did want to put pen to paper in this new year about the sheer joy I’ve been getting from recording Floppy Fridays, though.

It’s clear there’s been a strong “retro” trend in recent years. I’d probably argue that there’s always some manner of retro trend, in the sense that fashions loop in a cycle and we very often idolize decades that came 2-3 before (the previous decade is almost always an embarrassment – it takes time to look back with fondness). It’s been some years that I’ve been enjoying the computing nostalgia of my youth, personally. You can see some early posts tagged with “retro…

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