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Today it is a commonplace that the automobile represents freedom. But to many Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.
Peter Norton • When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
The Making of Street Fighter II
youtu.beThe Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt - Journal #146
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culture is the operating system of society.
Like any well-designed operating system, culture is invisible to most people most of the time. Hidden in plain sight, we make use of it constantly without realizing it. As an operating system, culture forms the base infrastructure layer of societal interaction, facilitating communication, cooperation, and interrelations. Always evolving, culture is elastic: we build on it, remix it, and even break it.
As more and more spaces for meeting in real life close, we increasingly turn to digital platforms for connection to replace them. But these virtual spaces are optimized for shareholder returns, not public good.
My culture shock and alienation occurred upon my return to Germany. All the sudden many behaviors and attitudes in Germany, that I had never really questioned growing up, seemed exceedingly odd to me.
Albert Wenger • The Power of Culture
Designing in our neighborhoods, for our neighborhoods
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Being a “member” means that you belong to the place, and the place belongs to you.
3. Save up enough for a time period of just art.
Albert Wenger • How Much is Enough?
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“They have to try on every single piece in the store,” Green said. “See where it’s made, what it’s made from, learn why it costs what it costs, the fit, the stitching, the trims, so they can talk about it all.”