Technology does not drive change

October 26, 2019

«It’s my belief that technology does not drive change.
Technology merely enables changes.
It creates options and opportunities
that as individuals and as communities and as entire cultures
we choose to exploit.
And it’s our response to the technologies that drive change.
In other words, first we invent our technologies
and then we use our technologies to reinvent ourselves».
– Paul Saffo, technology forecaster

books and literature

The Singing Hills Cycle

The Single Hills cycle is a group of short novels by Nghi Vo, a queer Vietnamese-American author, and they centre around the character of Chih, a non-binary monk whose job is to record stories with the aid of their familiar spirit with a perfect memory.

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books and literature

Consigli di lettura: il Visconte Cibernetico

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architecture, engineering and construction

Inside the Flow

Last week I wrote a piece on the use of flow principles in technical training, focusing on the principles you can design for. Specifically, Csikszentmihalyi names eight characteristics of flow, and the article only worked with three of them — clear goals, immediate feedback, and

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