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When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more
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Yet the cultural dominance of the iPhone — and the transformation of the open internet into “walled gardens” and apps focused on simplifying the user experience — has taken the “triumph of seamless usability” to a new level. This “tyranny of convenience,” to borrow Tim Wu’s phrase , should sensitize us to what may be lost when democratization
... See moreROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
In a world where it seems like everyone is always online, a group of Brooklyn teens are promoting a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology.
Founded last year by Edward R. Murrow High School student Logan Lane, the Luddite Club is named after Ned Ludd, the folkloric 18th-century English textile... See more
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Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that, there is no where