Category Archives: The Human Element

A Christian’s Take on “The Transcendant Man”: A Documentary About Ray Kurzweil

Over the weekend, much to my excitement I found a documentary on Netflix Streaming about Ray Kurzweil, a futurist whom I’ve been following for quite awhile now.  He adopted a term from Physics called The Singularity, in which the point where machine intelligence would surpass the understanding of humans. Another theory of his is that [...]

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We Own the Aesthetic and make the swords: why every designer should reign over products and commercialism

I’ve been thinking about design as a tool in business and I’ve come to the realization that every designer and design firm has in them baked into their essence the desire to make the world a better place. We as designers are usually brought in after the product or business design is locked in and [...]

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How and Why We Need to Move to Open Source Ubiquitous Computing

Lately, I’ve been thinking about computing and the internet and how we all need to stop talking about Social Networking like it’s the new thing. The only thing that it’s good for is connecting people, which is inherently good, but isn’t really anything new. The days before the internet, people wrote letters, people sent telegrams, [...]

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