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This is meant to be human communication. Technology needs to fade into the background, so I can simply chat with my friends, family and work colleagues. We need a universal communications bus.
Eric Migicovsky • The Universal Communication Bus
Kiser’s background is in news products — he previously worked as a product manager for Spin , Forbes and Business Insider — and he’s fascinated by how the way information is packaged shapes our experience of it. He’s been particularly influenced by the writer and photographer Craig Mod, who in a 2012 essay coined the concept of “edges”: the ways ph... See more
How to stay sane *AND* informed
finding opportunities to change the way people work and live and think.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. When your tools don’t work the way you need them to, you submit feedback and hope for the best. You’re forced to adapt your workflow to fit your software, when it ... See more
Geoffrey Litt • Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
I want the computer-human interface to be an empowering and positive experience—to minimize the interruption, annoyance, and distraction of our so-called smartphones and glass-faced tablets.
David Rose • Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology
fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity