The Real World of Technology A Lecture by Ursula M. Franklin www.amazon.com Technology is a systemFish and waterDefining activitiesHolistic and prescriptive technologiesThat which requires caring+17 More From hands to machinesThe design systems between usStress systems technologyworksocietycraft
Every Tool Shapes the Task A Speech by Ursula M. Franklin Imagine the world like a cakePower makes knowledge sufficientTo do some more pushups on the internetAdding up to hair-brainedWho the problems are+2 More You can almost tell which software they were designed inA minimum size to fish
When the hour of dire need draws nigh Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved. William James, Principles of Psychology wisdomneed