Maybe We Ought To Have

What Information Consumes Is Rather Obvious: It Consumes The Attention Of Its Recipients. Hence A Wealth Of Information Creates A Poverty Of Attention, And A Need To Allocate That Attention Efficiently Among The Overabundance Of Information Sources That Might Consume It.

There Are No Morals About Technology At All. Technology Expands Our Ways Of Thinking About Things, Expands Our Ways Of Doing Things. If We're Bad People We Use Technology For Bad Purposes And If We're Good People We Use It For Good Purposes.

The Engineer, And More Generally The Designer, Is Concerned With How Things Ought To Be - How They Ought To Be In Order To Attain Goals, And To Function.

Technology May Create A Condition, But The Questions Are What Do We Do About Ourselves. We Better Understand Ourselves Pretty Clearly And We Better Find Ways To Like Ourselves

Engineering, Medicine, Business, Architecture And Painting Are Concerned Not With The Necessary But With The Contingent - Not With How Things Are But With How They Might Be - In Short, With Design.