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A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. — Steve Jobs in Wired, February 1996…
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emergentfutures: Paul Higgins: Not sure that is true Martin. I agree that our social environment is taking a role in making those decisions but we are also seeing a significant rise in self tracking and information systems doing the same. I can imagine a system like this tied into a self tracking and a social…
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iandeleonarts: My highlights from the 2013 CreativeTime Summit: 1. INVINCIBLE discussing the colonizing effects of speculative real estate, and proposing speculative fiction as a way of decolonizing from such effects 2. Vito Acconci Studio’s proposal for a post-9/11 WTC = building so full of holes, nobody would bother blowing it up 3. Chen Shaoxiong’s proposal…
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kateoplis: “Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed…