Silicon Valley’s history is littered with failed attempts to build software that sets the world alight. Louis Suárez-Potts asks why it’s so difficult to create something new in a discipline that seems poised between science and art
HOW do you make good software, let alone software that transcends the usual expectations? Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg is about one such attempt: a project to create a free “personal information manager” called Chandler that combines features such as a calender, email, an address book and instant messaging.
Rosenberg tells us that software is created the way just about any…
