a technology anti case study by simon roberts
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Simon Roberts (Intel) presents his technology anit- case study at the SIX Spring School in Paris.TRANSCRIPT
An Anti-Case Study
Simon Roberts
Digital Health Group
Intel Corporation
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‘A critic is someone who pisses into a river and says look what a big stream I made’ Robert Frost
Technologies for the Future?
Realistic Visions?
“…thinking of infrastructure as stable, as uniform, as seamless, and as universally available is clearly problematic. It is not merely a dream of a world not yet realised it is a dream of a world that could never be realised”
“…postulating a seamless infrastructure is a strategy whereby the messy present can be ignored…infrastructure is always unevenly distributed, always messy”
Bell and Dourish
Class
Place
Social Capital
Education Economics
Infrastructure
Competency
Networks
Gender
Sociality Obligation &Reciprocity
Solidarity
Health
Community
Messiness
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Some Assumptions and their Antidotes
“People, not users, inhabit the world. A ‘user’ is something that designers create”
Redström (2006)
Users are Individuals
Smart Homes are Social Homes
Specific Devices, Specific Usages
"It can be anything you want it to be. This is the nearest we have got to seeing what I would call a universal machine."
David Hockey
Build Niche Products
SILO
NEUTRAL
Product or Service
Mar
ket
Age
Age Neutral
Neutral
Specific
Build it All, Own it All
Technology is a ‘Solution’
