Over the years I’ve written articles for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon.com, and the ACM, among others. Here are a few selected clips.
In 1532, a charismatic inventor named Giulio Camillo promised a technological breakthrough: a device that would unlock the wisdom of the ages and make it available to the average person.
He raised money, impressed the cognoscenti, and dazzled the crowds – and failed to deliver a working product. Sound familiar?
I’m launching a new Substack newsletter, exploring the deep history of the digital age: the forgotten people, inventions, and ideas that continue to shape how we think and communicate.
This week I shared a few remarks at Belgium’s KIKK Festival on new directions in AI-enabled historical research, alongside CUNY’s Peter Aigner. Here’s a rough sketch of my talk.
I’m launching a new Substack newsletter, exploring the deep history of the digital age: the forgotten people, inventions, and ideas that continue to shape how we think and communicate.
This week I shared a few remarks at Belgium’s KIKK Festival on new directions in AI-enabled historical research, alongside CUNY’s Peter Aigner. Here’s a rough sketch of my talk.
UX practice stands at a crossroads, as practitioners increasingly struggle with the escalating pressures of industrial capitalism. How might we envision alternative futures for more a post-capitalist version of UX practice?
In an increasingly metrics-driven business climate, UX practitioners face escalating pressures to deliver small-scale results. Is there a better way?
Reflections on teaching a summer course in Design Futures at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Reflections on a ten-day course in Transition Design at Schumacher College in the UK.
Recapping a workshop on the future of design education at the 2018 IxDA Education Summit in Lyon, France.
In his 1905 novel A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells imagined a future world in which a small group of highly skilled creative workers wielded enormous power over the rest of society. He dubbed this new breed of elite professionals the “Samurai.”
Kevin Rosenberg, Collaborative Commons
As the global network continues to shrink the distance between producers and consumers, the global economy is also beginning to respond to a set major systemic shocks: climate change, growing income inequality, mass migration, and the rise of populist right-wing nationalism, to name a [...]
Contemporary UX rhetoric is awash in talk of Lean and Agile methods, heroic tales of teams “failing fast,” and Fast Company-style paeans to designers as disruptors of hidebound industries. It is, for the most part, a rhetoric of doing.
But what value might we find in Read more
Illustration by Sarah Abbott
Etsy has a big mission: to reimagine commerce in ways that build a more fulfilling and lasting world. That mission is accomplished in small steps; each change we make to the website or apps helps us build toward that goal. But how do we know [...]
