How can we create a tool that represents our thoughts—adding as little as possible and losing nothing?
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“It just works” — the three stages of technological depoliticization
“It Just Works” is propaganda: it hides the trail that products cut though our societies and the natural world to get to us.
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Computers are already having an outsized impact on our world and, if not controlled, will dominate it.
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HSM is building graceful systems—what does this mean?
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We forget at our peril that the medium is the message in software, too; worse, the makers of software are working hard to create this amnesia.
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Why URLs are the best of the Web, and why, despite this, their limitations are the limitations of most modern technology.
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