Daniel M. Russel and Brian Suda

In my time as an editorial board member in portuguese B!T Magazine I have written several articles, produced a bunch of tests to miscellaneous equipment and had the privilege to talk to some of the great minds of our time. Geeky stuff mostly but still, wonderful geeky stuff. From all the people I have met I need to highlight two in particular.

Firstly, Mr. Daniel M. Russel, head researcher at Google, which granted me a phone interview that was the base of B!T’s 148 cover theme. To him personally and all the people who made that phonecall possible, thank you very much. It is wonderful to learn how Google’s “brains” work to make our lives easier.

And last but not least, Mr. Brian Suda, who I have met briefly in 2009 during Sapo Codebits and left me in awe with the “Hello world” Ancient Egypt style t-shirt (should be read “Hello to all the land”) – I am a huge fan of Ancient Egypt history. That, allied with the fact that I am also defender/fan of usability/user experience/user interface related subjects and Mr. Suda is one of the people behind Microformats – semantics rule! – lead me to contact him during Codebits 2010.

I started to take a photo of his “Hello to all the land” t-shirt and went on to exchange emails. After a while, Mr. Suda kindly agreed do write an article to be included on the first issue of 2011, related to our technological past, present and future. We had a little misunderstanding regarding character count – I asked for about 2000/3000 characters and Mr. Suda wrote 2000+ words (a bit more and we could have published a book) and so I’ve managed to translate the text to portuguese and have it published spanned across three issues. I have to say that, even if at times I had a bit of trouble translating parts of the text to avoid misinterpretations, I also had a blast reading every word.

Recently I found out that Mr. Suda has already publish the original text in his own blog. Therefore, here is the link. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have.