In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
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10.5860/choice.43-1350
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2005
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John Thackara
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我们用技术和设备填满了这个世界，但我们忽略了一个重要的问题：这些东西是用来做什么的？它为我们的生活增添了什么价值？作者约翰·萨卡拉（John Thackara）在他的新书《在泡沫中：为复杂的世界设计》（In the Bubble：Designing for a Complex World）中写道。这些都是技术推动者要回答的坚韧问题。我们的经济体系是以技术为中心的，所以如果“技术”不再是我们日常生活中的目的，那就不是一件小事了。技术不会消失，但讨论它将服务于什么目的的时间是在我们部署它之前，而不是之后。我们需要问一问，我们向世界释放的宽带通信、智能材料、可穿戴计算和联网设备将起到什么作用。我们需要问一下，所有这些东西会对我们的日常生活产生什么影响。谁来照顾它，如何照顾？《泡沫中》讲述的是一个更少基于物质而更多基于人的世界。萨卡拉描述了一个正在发生的转变不是在遥远的科幻小说中的未来，也不是像他所说的“新事物的拙劣”，而是在日常生活中已经出现的根本性创新。我们正在重新赢得人们对技术所不能做到的事情的尊重。In the Bubble描述了旨在帮助人们以新的方式进行日常活动的服务。这些服务中有许多涉及到技术，从身体植入到宽体喷气式飞机。但在以人为本的世界中，物体和系统起着支持作用。设计的重点是服务，而不是东西。而新的原则--最重要的是，轻量化--则为这些服务的设计和使用提供了信息。《In the Bubble》的核心是一个信念，它通过大量的现实世界的例子得到了启发，即道德和责任可以为设计决策提供信息，而不会阻碍社会和技术创新。
We'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, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. 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? In the Bubble 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. In the Bubble 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 In the Bubble 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.