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In Australia, a new branch of engineering is being established by the cultural anthropologist and futurist Genevieve Bell at the 3A Institute to explore the ethics of what we’re creating.
Tiffany Shlain • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
Saffron Huangletterstoayoungtechnologist.com
Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
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
In a world of perpetual data overload, [curation] implies information design and selectivity: the channeling, filtering, and organization into intelligible and usable information; the digging up of new or long ignored cultural corpora. Most of these corpora are simply sitting in storage: less than 1% of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent colle... See more
Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
