Design Tomorrow

Is technology a means to an end — the ladder we climb to a future we want to inhabit because it's better for us than the present — or is it as far as we let our minds and hearts go? In this episode of Design Tomorrow, we'll connect a few stories about technology that didn't make it in order to better understand the technological path our culture is on...

Links

• Split-flap displays
• Saying Goodbye to Philadelphia's 30th Street Station's Iconic Flip Board
• BERG's Pixel Track
• BERG's archived home page

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Arbic Tallow, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Fall Creek Unit, by r beny
• Ervira, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Kalsted, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Arbinac, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Levanger, by Blue Dot Sessions

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does advertising still make sense in our world today? How does a form of media always known as an associated form — as something that sips from the attention river flowing to and from other things — function when the complexity of those waterways has exponentially increased?

Links

• Who is Using Twitter in the US?
• 28 Twitter Statistics All Marketers Need to Know in 2019
• The Eye-Opening Influence of Instagram on Buying
• 10 Instagram Stats Every Marketer Should Know in 2019
• The Cost of Paying Attention, by Matthew Crawford
• Jared Lanier on micropayments
• The Roosevelts, by Ken Burns

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Greyleaf Willow, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Rainy Day Drone, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Fall Creek Unit, by r beny
• Loam, by Podington Bear
• EE2 Ambient, by r beny
• Wilt, by r beny
• E2 Ambient Electro Jam, by r beny

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are interfaces good? Or are they a distraction — for us the makers, and for the users we believe we are helping? How can we think better about both how we interface with digital experiences, personally, and how others do it? Today, we'll think deeply about the nature of the interface — what it is, and what it says about us, the people who made it — and explore the need for new rules for better interface-making...

Links

• It's a Mistake to Mistake Content for Content, by Kenneth Goldsmith
• In the Kingdom of the Bored, the One-Armed Bandit is King, by Nicholas Carr
• Amish Hackers, by Kevin Kelly
• Kevin Kelly speaking at Google
• What Technology Wants, by Kevin Kelly

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Bloom, by r beny
• Cyclotrak, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Svela Tal, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Tralaga, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Exceter Lask, by Blue Dot Sessions

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We live in a time of illusions. Simulations that reflect back upon us more than just the passage of time, but something important about who we are. Something unique is going on right now — with the tools and technology we have — that is giving us the ability to stop, stretch, bend, and replay time. In this episode, we'll explore what that offers us, we for whom at some point, time will end...

Links

• "Danielle"
• Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits by Anthony Cerniello
• "Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 12.5 years"
• Homer Simpson Time Lapse
• "Nancy Grows Up"
• "41 Years in 60 Seconds"
• "The Arrow of Time"
• Star Trek TNG - Moriarty pleads his case for existence
• Stranger than Fiction - Harold confronts the necessity of his death
• Memento Mori

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Danielle, by Mark Reveley
• Together We Are Stronger, by Komiku
• I Need to Start Writing Things Down, by Chris Zabriskie
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains, by Chris Zabriskie
• I Used to Need the Violence, by Chris Zabriskie
• Out of the Skies Under the Earth, by Chris Zabriskie

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can we really call it progress when it creates so much waste? What if your phone — the one you’re using right now — was your last phone? Take a good look at it and imagine using it for the rest of your life. Could it even last that long? Could you? Probably not. Today I want to think about what that means. What happens to a planet and its people when technological progress is measured in product cycles. And what happens when there's no balance sheet to account for the other side of that — when every new product leaves billions of products and accessories and packaging behind...

Show Notes

• My first cellphone
• My second cellphone
• This clip ended up on the cutting room floor, but here's Derek Zoolander's tiny phone
• You can learn more about the Agbogbloshie landfill by reading its Wikipedia page, looking at these photographs, or watching this documentary. Please watch it!
• You can learn more about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch here.
• "The Victims of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a clip from 60 Minutes
• Project Ara Demo at Google IO 2015
• Google Cancels Project Ara
• The Fairphone
• Danny Boyle interviewed by Marc Maron

Music

All music used in this episode was independently produced by r beny and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Felt
• Fall Creek Unit
• Formation Process
• Novation Peak
• Mariposa
• Alluvial
• Natoma
• Spindle
• Illumination Ceremony

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.