The Tarot Cards of Tech are a creative tool to help designers and technologists think about the outcomes of their products and services.
Invention & Discovery Cards
A Civilization-inspired tech tree but for the real life history of science and discovery. Inventions and discoveries presented in illustrated Magic-style cards.
Invention Cards 3.0: Stories
Last month, after a long hiatus, I showed invention.cards to a friend in SF and came away unsatisfied. Indeed, the work was not yet done . Three things drove this revision: It felt incomplete. The experience was built around T-shaped navigation, focusing on a specific card and showing only their ancestors and descendants. It was hard to see where you were in time, hard to feel the shape of history, and ultimately was far removed from the way a tech tree should feel . The connections matter more than the nodes. What's most interesting to me was not
Issue Cards | Service Design Tools
Support the conversation around complex matters by breaking down the subject into physical cards.
A People’s History of Tech
A collective storytelling project to build a more representative history that reflects the human impacts of technology.
Nudges, Biases & Heuristics for the Age of AI
45 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference for designers, researchers, and product teams building with AI.
other futures: tech, resistance & imagining otherwise
big tech wants to control our future, but there are other paths we can choose instead. on "other futures" we bring together leading tech researchers, organizers, critics, and storytellers to help us imagine what more liberatory and human-centered tech futures could look like—and how we can build them together. brought to you by DAIR and the All Tomorrows Institute.
Richard Geldreich's Blog: Tech company patterns
First off, I'm not finished with this blog post. Don't take it too seriously. This is not about any one company . Some aren't even from me....
Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center
Once an obscure job title, creative technology is becoming a new way of working, and a core capability inside modern product teams. Soon…
Large tech companies don't need heroes
Large tech companies operate via systems. What that means is that the main outcomes - up to and including the overall success or failure of the company - are driven by a complex network of processes and incentives. These systems are outside the control of any particular person. Like the parts of a large codebase, they have accumulated and co-evolved over time, instead of being designed from scratch.
The Technological Construction of Social Power
This essay presents a theory of the role of technology in the distribution and exercise of social power. The paper studies how technical artefacts and systems are used to construct, maintain or st...
Tarot Based Narrative Generation - Anne Sullivan [PROCJAM 2018]
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
Technological Metamodernism (Sep 2024)
Technological Metamodernism A four-week course with Stephen Reid and special guests Telegram group: https://t.me/+4CC9lfZMBN04ZTdk Substack post announcing the open-sourcing of the notes: https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-course This work is licensed under Cre...
The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.
LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.
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