{"product_id":"in-the-bubble-designing-in-a-complex-world-paperback","title":"In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Thackara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, \u003ci\u003eIn the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World\u003c\/i\u003e. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if \"tech\" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now--not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, \"the schlock of the new\" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. \u003ci\u003eIn the Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology--ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles--above all, lightness--inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of \u003ci\u003eIn the Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Thackara, described as a \"design guru, critic and business provocateur\" by \u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003c\/i\u003e, is the Director of Doors of Perception, a design futures network based in Amsterdam and Bangalore. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDesign after Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLost in Space: A Traveler's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWinners! How Successful Companies Innovate by Design\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. Since 2002, he has authored the Doors of Perception blog and newsletter (http: \/\/www.doorsofperception.com\/).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.5 x 5.66 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44432082010214,"sku":"9780262701150","price":72.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Y1VOUFBvSGZJVmMzZyt0Qmhnc1ZSUT09.webp?v=1770299522","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/in-the-bubble-designing-in-a-complex-world-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}