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“And if technology is to be used to unlock the innate compassion we have for others, if it is to create a historical shift from the powerful to the powerless, if it is to do wonderful things that make the world a better place, it will not do it on its own. It will depend on how you use it to advance moral purposes.”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
“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”
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
“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.”
― Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
― Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
“For Simon, “Everyone designs who changes existing situations into preferred ones” (p. 129).”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
“One philosopher, Karl Popper, contended that the limitations of the inferential, experimental method, which characterized science since Bacon, could not establish the truth of a proposition; it could only eliminate the alternative explanations that were tested.13 Thus, “truth” was tentative, waiting to be modified or even upended by the next set of experiments. The other, Thomas Kuhn, contended that, in fact, scientists were not objective seekers of truth, but rather, engaged in confirming the current “truth,” what Kuhn called the prevailing “paradigm” in the discipline. In the practice of what Kuhn called “normal science,” scientists were merely elaborating on this paradigm or using it to explain away any anomalies in their findings. It was only when anomalies accumulate to the point of crisis, when the current paradigm can no longer hold up, that the science opens to new, revolutionary ways of thinking that replace the old.”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
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