Over a decade ago, as a high school student, I wrote a paper entitled: Technological Singularity and the Tomorrow-land of Today.

Cheesy, I know.

Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has announced that they are shutting down Firefox OS. The smartphone-oriented operating system has been first publicly demonstrated in February 2012, and it took another year before it was actually shipped to customers. 

It’s not unusual to travel the country and see the same sights from coast to coast: a mall might have many of the same stores, a food court might have the same staples. A pharmacy on one end of the country will generally stock the same items in more or less the same order as a pharmacy on the other end of the country. Consistency is key in chain business.

In development, projects ready for client use are called “shippable.”  The name sounds nice – it can ship to the client, it’s going to be used – but being shippable does not constitute being done, certainly not to a development team.

I am a QA for a digital wayfinding company –– a world away from WM Studios in scope, despite our shared status as tech companies. QA means quality assurance, but the people charged with maintaining such a thing are called QAs, too. It sounds funny like that: “I am a quality assurance.” My job is to comb through applications and code and development and front-ends and back-ends (ha!) and make sure it all functions nicely. I love my company. I also have complicated feelings about my work.

Are video games in their awkward phase –– realistic, but not realistic enough?