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This 20 minute video show Terry Irwin, Director of the Transition Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University introducing the Transition Design approach and looking at COVID-19 in the U.S. through the lens of Transition Design.

Transition Design brings together two global memes. First, the idea that entire societies must transition toward more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term futures and second, that these transitions will require intentional, systems-level change. We see evidence of these memes in the large number of transition-related initiatives springing up around the world, and the rise in the number of tools and knowledge sets aimed at understanding complex systems and systems problems.

Title: The Most Crucial Design Job Of The Future Excerpt: If artificial intelligence has any hope of expanding our understanding of the world, rather than simply reflecting old biases, it needs radical transparency.

"call on governments to use the data-driven management techniques common in the private sector to find out how best to respond to the employment disruption that is coming. These include using "A/B" testing of alternative options to do small trials of new social policies designed to counteract the impact of automation, before expanding them to entire populations."

A truly innovative product would learn from the mistakes of predecessor platforms and would focus on things like privacy, security and accessibility. Instead, Clubhouse is yet another example of technology designed by, and largely for, privileged, white, Western and able-bodied men.

the example given is about journalism, in the roleplaying people are the staff of a newspaper in distress

the data-driven web, linked documentation, automated software design, decentralization and the semantic web

"The future will like arrive in part by design and in part by disaster. Our challenge is to try to constitute the future through planning and community action, not have the future constitute us," said Alexander.

Jon Bell worked on Twitter's Abuse team as the lead designer in 2016, and is haunted by his team's inability to take the threat seriously and make significant progress towards addressing it.

Related to federated wiki, zettelkasten, secondbrain etc A PLE.

highly technical, probably interesting

"improve the overall intelligence produced by the ecosystem. By providing means and channels to relate and transact value through relationships, platforms are the tools that are augmenting our global intelligence."

Games saving humanity

If you have any interest in scifi, futurism and world-building at all, you should listen to this, I guess.

"Joseph Corneli, PhD"