Exploiting emotion There are no shortcuts to the investment of time and care in friendship and human bonding, and it is fraudulent to pretend otherwise. When human loneliness becomes a source of income for others through devices, we'd better stop and think a bit about the place of human needs in the real world of technology. Ursula M. Franklin, The Real World of Technology lovefriendshipexploitationlonelinesssolitude
Why I'm losing faith in UX An Article by Mark Hurst creativegood.com Increasingly, I think UX doesn't live up to its original meaning of "user experience." Instead, much of the discipline today, as it's practiced in Big Tech firms, is better described by a new name. UX is now "user exploitation." Waking up from the dream of UX uxbusinessexploitationtechnology
Urban form and grain One square mile of different cities' street networks, held at the same scale to compare the urban form and grain. Geoff Boeing, The Right Tools for the Job Cityspace series mapscities