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Trust Is Not An Algorithm

By John Thackara | Published: June 9, 2013

[Illustration from http://www.hhs.gov/open/initiatives/hdi/] By some accounts the world’s information is doubling every two years. This impressive if unprovable fact has got many people wondering: what to do with it? Many big brands hope that the analysis of Big Data will give them a ‘360 degree view’ of customers: Who they’re interacting with, where they shop, how [...]

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Diseñando Para un mundo complejo. Acciones para lograr la sustentabilidad

By John Thackara | Published: June 3, 2013

I’m totally thrilled that my book has just been published in Spanish by my fabulous friends at Editorial Disegnio in Mexico City. Please tell everyone you know, once met, or vaguely heard of, who is Spanish-speaking, and who might be interested. Health warning: the “$” price shown means Mexican pesos, not US$. Oh, and did [...]

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Big, Hairy, and Agile

By John Thackara | Published: April 17, 2013

The UK government’s digital services platform, gov.uk, has won the Design of the Year award – and if I were running a big IT consulting firm grown fat on big government contracts, I’d be worried. Gov.uk is a revolutionary web operation that governments around the world are beginning to notice. Twenty four UK government departments [...]

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Design At The Service of Living Systems: Lecture in Milan

By John Thackara | Published: April 4, 2013

For those readers heading for the annual Salone in Milano next week, here follows a summary of my talk next Tuesday at a conference organised by Interni and the Be Open Foundation. The ecologist Thomas Berry described as the ecozoic the “reintegration of human endeavours into a larger ecological consciousness”. Our species will only make true progress, [...]

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An Open Design School for India

By John Thackara | Published: January 29, 2013

(Image from http://openwear.org/) In recent months a working party in India, chaired by Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovation, has been developing the plan for a nationwide network of 20 Design Innovation Centres, an Open Design School, and a National Design Innovation Network. The latest public version of the plan is here: Download pdf During this process, I was invited by Abhimanyu [...]

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From Autobahn to Bioregion

By John Thackara | Published: October 22, 2012

[Above: for CRIT, Mumbai may look a mess - but the city enjoys 'high transactional capacities'] The big Audi that collected us from Istanbul airport contained nearly as many electronic control units (ECUs) as the new Airbus A380. The Audi, and similar high-end cars, will soon run on 200 million lines or more of software [...]

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How To Manage a Constellation

By John Thackara | Published: October 1, 2012

The map below is of the Baltic Sea. Over the last hundred years its ecosystems have been poisoned almost to death by outputs from a multitude of industries and farming activities in the nine countries that surround it. These deadly flows are shown on the complicated chart below: Tweet

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