The 4th Industrial Revolution and the Lowercase “internet”

The 4th Industrial Revolution and the Lowercase “internet”

So the “internet” is now lower-case, and my spell check has already been updated to reflect that. Things move quickly when you work from the cloud, and since I use Google Docs to write and edit a lot of my work, the change might have happened well before I really took notice. As I was thinking about this decision to lower the “I” in internet (which was actually made by the Associated Press back in early April 2016), I wondered just how often the lower-case version had been used since it entered our shared lexicon. To answer that question, I turned to the Google Books Ngram Viewer, and this is what I found:

A&L Annual Conference: Celebrating 25 Years of Custom Software Development

A&L Annual Conference: Celebrating 25 Years of Custom Software Development

Last week, most of the Art & Logic family came together for our annual conference. As a distributed company, we work remotely from throughout North America, and this annual meeting gives us an opportunity to review the work we’ve done as well as what we anticipate for the months ahead. We share with one another the ways in which our process benefited our clients as well as ways in which we might be able to adjust our process in order to better serve the needs of our clients. We dive deep into our work in custom software development, but also talk about music, art, sports, Star Wars (and other films), our families, our goals, and, of course, our frustrations and successes.

Is Your Company Ready for the Internet of Things?

Is Your Company Ready for the Internet of Things?

The Internet of Things. Of Things. When you hear it said or see it written, it might make you wonder what these things are and why they matter. If you aren’t familiar with the idea, it might even make you think that there is another Internet out there, something that...
What’s It Take to Get an App on iTunes?

What’s It Take to Get an App on iTunes?

A lot of people wonder what it’s like to build an app and successfully submit it to the iTunes Store, so we asked former Art & Logic intern, Pranjal Satija, about his experience developing and submitting an app that was approved. Oh, by the way, Pranjal is...
Collaboration and Software Development

Collaboration and Software Development

Most of us have probably used the term collaboration enough to have such a good idea of what it means that we don’t really have to stop to consider its implications. As the Google summary above says, the term derives from the latin word collaboratio (which also...