“I hope that all the various tech things we’ve talked about, if they’re going to happen, and they are going to happen, that they can actually happen in such a way that they don’t just continue to be a machine for making a small number of people very rich and they can actually improve the lived experience and quality of life for everyone.” PA

 

Pat Armstrong is a web designer living in sydney.

things mentioned:

* future of text article

* the talk about the amazon button that pat gave at underbelly

* canberra

* print design

* truth vs ones relationship to something

* pelican paperbacks

* penguin books

* Eink

* Kobo

* Kindle

* f.lux

* apple

* review the future podcast

* augmented reality

* individualism

* cartoon of everyone reading newspapers

* medium.com

* oculus rift

* adaptive path

* douglas adams quote

* youtube

* the fading of a shared pop culture canon

* post mass media (though still within globalisation)

* old conversations about “the future”

* self driving cars

* uber

* truck driving

* inventing the future – book

* universal basic income

* luddites

* the myth of the value of hard work – essay

* the conversations we’re not yet having

* designer as problem solver

* architects oath – 99 percent invisible podcast

* Dan Hill

* monacle magazine

* scandanavia

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