How to Repair a Spaceport by Kei Kreutler
The world of imagination can be—and perhaps is always—a rollercoaster of dreams and disappointments.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
A technologist makes reason out of the messiness of the world, leverages their understanding to envision a different reality, and builds a pathway to make their vision happen. All three of these endeavors—to try to understand the world, to imagine something different, and to build something that fulfills that vision—are deeply human.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
What's interesting is how our digital systems actually depend on this decaying physical infrastructure, yet provide no visibility into it.
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break.
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
This sort of collapsed, derelict condition can appear around any disintegrating dimension of being.