Who’d have thought it? Since the late 18th Century, moral panics have centred on the propensity for industrialisation and financialisation to turn people into machines. ‘You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their … Continue reading Teaching to the test: weak signals from the emissions scandal
I've been thinking about this exchange with Roberta... @mattedgar Lots of people _talk_ about getting users in the room. This weekend @mHealthLeeds is actually doing it. #mhleeds @RobertaWedge @mattedgar Users of what? In a health-care context, the term covers layers of euphemism. @mattedgar @RobertaWedge fair point. Alternatives to the word 'user' gratefully received. (Often but not always "people" … Continue reading Not All Mammals! In defence of designing for “people”
It's taken me a while (and 83 more pages of Here Comes Everybody) to understand my unease with the "technology changes everything" discourse around social media, and now to reach an alternative hypothesis. In my last post I questioned whether the advent of the internet in the place of television could, as Clay Shirky suggests, … Continue reading Erm, excuse me, but I think Everybody was here all along
Matt Edgar writes here 