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In the Bubble Designing in a Complex World

Paperback • 2006 • English

In the Bubble Designing in a Complex World

By John Thackara

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About the book

How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an ...Show more

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ISBN

9780262701150

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

In the Bubble Designing in a Complex World

Format

Paperback

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