Kalyani Tupkary

The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.

Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: When we humanize the world, we may prevent ourselves from understanding the lives of other organisms on their own terms. But are there things this stance might lead us to pass

My methods meander between academia and Silicon Valley: I explore theories by expressing them in real-world systems, which produce insights I use to improve the theories, which I use in turn to improve the systems, and so on.

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The filing cabinet encouraged the drive to break more and more of modern life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable, and manageable parts