CHT Welcome 2 of 3: The 6 Tenets of Humane Technology
This is how technology should work: starting with a human need, and a purpose, technology should extend outwards with the intent of expanding the human, not confining or reducing.
John Borthwick • Building bicycles for our minds
we should directly tie the success of our technologies to how much they enable our humanity (as in, our positive human characteristics), and use this criteria to evaluate past, present and future technologies.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
Understanding the ethical implications at this foundational level requires acknowledging that design choices are not neutral. Every notification, autoplay video, or infinite scroll feature represents a deliberate decision with ethical weight. The elucidation of these design principles reveals their primary objective → keeping users engaged, often... See more