Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
How might you help people find new things on the internet? How might you give new things on the internet a meaningful audition, without turning it all into a game that can (and will) be hacked and mastered?
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
their user stories, preferred platforms, aesthetics, language, and so on are not taken into consideration.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
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
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
amazon.com
Both felt most comfortable in the meritocracy of academia, where brains trumped everything else. Both had an innate understanding of how the ultraconnected world that they enjoyed as computer science (CS) students was about to spread throughout society. Both shared a core belief in the primacy of data.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
