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

movies and tv

The East Palace

The East Palace (동궁) is this new South Korean dark fantasy television series I’ve been watching on Netflix, and I must say it has some serious Constantine vibes. I’m not an expert on Korean drama, so I don’t know the authors nor the actors starring

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architecture, engineering and construction

Flow, baby, flow

A.k.a. The technical training that fails to engage If you’re a technical trainer, you’ve seen this before: you designed an exercise, people in the class started doing whatever it is that they needed doing, and then they start dropping like flies. It happens for different

September 2, 2026 9:00 am

Summertime

Summer Reads Wrap-up

So, aside from these last few entries, I did a summer reading list for architects with hardly any book about architecture, didn’t I? Loads of them were poetry, some were non-fiction on anthropology and personal reflections, there have been novels on ruins, memory, rooms. I

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