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data

Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor

Grooming data for the machines has a human cost.
culture

Should computers serve humans, or should humans serve computers?

Nolan Lawson considers dystopian and utopian possibilities for the future, with a gentle suggestion that front-line technologists have some agency.
Northern lights at Juvet - Photo by James Gilyead
ai

The Juvet Agenda

The Juvet Agenda lays out the urgent themes surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning—and presents a set of provocations for teasing out a future we want to live in.
algorithms

In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different

In Harvard Business Review, Ed Hess suggests that critical thinking and emotional engagement will become the most valued flavors of intelligence.
Brad Frost headshot
future

Oil City High School 2017 Commencement Speech

At his old high school, Brad Frost reminds the kids that their future jobs may not exist yet. Skills, values and personality matter more than vocation.
Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone
iphone

How iPhone Changed Computing—and Much More

The iPhone’s arrival 10 years ago catalyzed deep changes that are still playing out today. Here’s a rundown of what happened—and what’s ahead.
Robot with pencil
interview

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: How AI Will Affect UX Design

Adobe profiled and interviewed Big Medium’s Josh Clark about the opportunities and challenges facing UX designers in a world of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
future

The City Was Connected

Dan Hon imagines what happens when all of a city’s systems are connected, incentivized, gamified, and bureaucratically weaponized.
Josh Clark at Mind the Product 2017
algorithms

Design in the Era of the Algorithm

Machine learning is technology’s new frontier, and designers have a crucial part to play. Josh Clark explores our new roles and responsibilities when we design for the machines.
ai

The Future of the UX Designer

Designer Anton Sten ponders the future role of digital designers in a world of more and more Alexas, Siris, and other non-visual interfaces.
algorithms

No Need for Alarm About How Neural Nets Work

Albert Wenger says it doesn’t matter if we can’t understand or audit the logic of the algorithms that run our lives.
Facebook virtual reality
principles

Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole

BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan took a world-weary view of Facebook’s boosterish view new technologies.
Through the Looking Glass by Simon and His Camera
ai

Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand

In Backchannel, David Weinberger considers the implications of machines constructing their own models for understanding data, quite divorced from our own (more simplistic) models.
John Deere self-driving tractor
ai

Self-Driving Cars Are Coming, but Self-Driving Tractors Are Already Here

Motherboard surveys all the ways farmers are already living in the future. Self-driving tractors have been farming the land for 15 years.
Lightform map projection
augmented reality

Lightform: The Magical Little Device That Transforms Whole Rooms Into Screens

Wired previews a “projection-mapping” device that transforms any room into an augmented reality experience, no screen or goggles required.
creativity

Losing One’s Self in Selfie Moments

At MEX, Marek Pawlowski asks, what comes next, now that selfies have reached total saturation?
Xerox PARC c. 1975
principles

Alan Kay’s Answer to What Made Xerox PARC Special

Alan Kay describes the principles that made PARC so uniquely imaginative during his tenure there.
Museum of the Future of Government Services - Dubai
future

The Future Agency

The Verge has a long-read profile of Tellart’s immersive imaginings of the future—basically huge-scale usability labs for what might be.
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