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“The same diagrams are useful for the everyday person who wants to keep informed but not by having to delve deeply into the detailed technical jargon and details. This is where the tool known as a dashboard comes into play. Information Dashboards In an automobile, the driver needs to know a few critical pieces of information. Over time, the displays in front of the driver have evolved to present critical, important, and sometimes simply useful information: the display is called a “dashboard.” The point of an automobile dashboard is to make information readily available at a glance, without distracting the driver. In the field of information technology, dashboards summarize in a simple and clear form the key variables that are essential for decision-making. For example, decision makers need quick and authoritative assessments of conditions, allowing them to know where their attention should be focused.”
― Donald A Norman, Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

“They expressed “confidence in the ability of humans and their technologies to overcome any problems—including environmental problems” and to “shape the natural world for [humanity’s] own benefit.”36 Desrochers and Szurmak identify four main arguments against population controls. First, “a larger population that engages in trade and the division of labor will deliver greater material abundance per capita.” Second, “human creativity can deliver increasing returns.” Third, “standards of living are not constrained by local resources.” Fourth, “past achievements are grounds for cautious optimism.”37”
― Marian L. Tupy, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

“Our studies suggest that when the world gets better, we become harsher critics of it, and this can cause us to mistakenly conclude that it hasn’t actually gotten better at all. Progress, it seems, tends to mask itself.”133”
― Marian L. Tupy, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

“In these ways, Verbeek contends, designs “materialize morality”43 With the creation of designs, designers are often building in features and capabilities that, with their use and impact, have moral implications. It is in this way that designers have a special moral responsibility. They must think not only about the features they invent and intensions of their designs—what they would like to happen—but think about the moral impact, the consequences of their use.”
― Robert Kozma, Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values