Welcome to people who were at the #Internet50 LDN event… The big picture How can we better understand our societies and socio-technical change, engage citizens, and facilitate progress? A half century Almost 50 years ago, 10:30 pm on 29 October 1969, a team led by Professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message from a computer at …
Author archives: Nico Macdonald
Event: 50 Years of the Internet, 30/10/2019 (Plexal, London)
Event on 50 Years of the Internet, 30/10/2019, at Plexal in the QE Olympic Park
Launch of LSBU / LCC ‘ACE IT’ Immersive Technology programme
At London South Bank University we are working with the London College of Communication (part of the University of the Arts) on an EU-funded (ERDF) innovation support programme for immersive tech entrepreneurs, offering free access to academic and industry expertise, and specialist audio-visual, digital and creative technology facilities and specialist studios. The programme The programme, ACE IT (Accelerating the …
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Researching Social Technologies
For a client, I am researching the area of Social Technologies – that is, the humane use of innovative technologies in social care, including care of the elderly and infirm – to understand how this domain can be intelligently and effectively supported.
Article: dmi:Review ‘Design, Didacticism, and the Dignity of People’, 2019
In this article I argue that there is an orthodoxy in the design profession, which is a product of ‘not knowing what you don’t know’, a tendency to create filter bubbles, and ‘bad faith’ humanism. The design industries embrace diversity in everything except politics; users are at the centre except when their views don’t fit. …
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