MORGAN WILLS

“The notion of emergence at many levels is an important one, as each level of emergence can serve as a convenient point at which to dissect the larger system and attempt to understand some of its secrets. Indeed, the boundaries of modern science rely on this property—for example, physics resolves into chemistry, which resolves into biology, which resolves into psychology, which resolves into economics, and so on. Each new science is able to exploit the emergence that is attained by the previous level.” 

“In the late 1990s, there was much prognostication about the sub-computer future. It would put leapfrog theory into action, allowing developing economies to catch up with industrialized nations in one generation. But despite all the publicity and investment, usable sub-computers have not become the holy grail. Only the educated middle class has adopted them. The mass of people, especially in the rural and suburban regions of developing economies, have not. The issues extend beyond expense and availability, because no usable technology has been developed for these potential users. We often hear media-friendly examples, like the fisher- man who checks the weather forecast on the web. While these stories amuse people at conferences and NGO forums, the truth is that such users are rare. Most of the applications on computers have little utility for a sub-literate mass population.”  

Ethical supply is not impossible or even necessarily bad for business:

The secret to life is to be able to make vegetables taste good. Succeed in this and the world is yours. You will eat better, more cheaply, and stress out the planet a little less.

Development opportunities are a moving target.

Is the left-leaning designer who creates brand identities more of an oxymoron than the right-leaning commercial designer? Can you help maintain and stimulate a right-wing ideology, and then say with credibility that you’re of the left?

Kumu is Awesome

We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.