Modern Medicine
Discovering Jonathan Harris was purely a serendipity process. I was musing for nice design pieces at Swiss Miss when struck by a post headline shouting "Jonathan Harris: Rethinking Social Networking". Not easy a task, not a benign ambition!
In this speech, Jonathan Harris describes the four pivotal trends in social networking… four trends that are reshaping culture and brain chemistry in the digital age: Compression, Disposability, Curation, and Self-Promotion.
- Compression depicts the way everything becomes shorter and faster on the web
- Disposability qualifies how quickly new becomes outdated, leaving no place for patient construction
- Curation
- Self-Promotion considers life as an advertisement – and this comes with stress
Would such topics make sens for you, then rush to Modern Medicine, his latest opus.
My favorite quote:
All technology extends some pre-existing human urge or condition: a hammer extends the hand, a pencil extends the mind, a piano extends the voice. All technology amplifies something we already possess. [...] When designing technology, you should understand what human urge or condition you will be extending.
