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As the introspection of the last thirty years gives way to technology-led interconnection and transparency, what is the new role of design?
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There's an important economic principle behind the debate about bankers' bonuses. It's that individual self-interest sometimes conflicts with the collective interest.
This is my piece for Waterstones Book Club, where I was asked to write about why – and how – I wrote Bad Pharma. The full book club caboodle is here, and you can buy the book here. Here it is… ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I wrote this book because we need to fix a set of problems […]
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Always nice to get some insight into how other people research.
Sussex, England
April 17, 1975, the day the Khmer Rouge triumphantly marched into Phnom Penh, marks the moment the absolute contingency of the world was revealed to the city's residents.
Before, these residents had unconsciously assumed that urban life would carry on as normal, regardless of which faction won the civil war. Indeed, they cheered the victory of the Khmer Rouge, innocently thinking the new peace would be an unproblematic continuation of the old. This quickly proved to be a false assumption when they were forcibly evacuated from the city, with the seemingly eternal fixities of society, money and markets suddenly eliminated in the new anticapitalist utopia of Democratic Kampuchea....In this the victims of the genocide occupied the same epistemic position of Russell's tragic chicken who was misled by its "crude expectations of uniformity" to expect the farmer to continue to feed it indefinitely into the future:
The man who has fed the chicken everyday throughout its life at last wrings
its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature
would have been useful to the chicken.
The existential question this raises for us is thus: are we the contemporary equivalents of those urban residents of Phnom Penh on the morning of April 17, 1975, blithely expecting our ways of life to persist indefinitely into the future, all the time unknowing of the Chaos lurking underneath the seemingly stable foundations of our existence?
-Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim
Before, these residents had unconsciously assumed that urban life would carry on as normal, regardless of which faction won the civil war. Indeed, they cheered the victory of the Khmer Rouge, innocently thinking the new peace would be an unproblematic continuation of the old. This quickly proved to be a false assumption when they were forcibly evacuated from the city, with the seemingly eternal fixities of society, money and markets suddenly eliminated in the new anticapitalist utopia of Democratic Kampuchea....In this the victims of the genocide occupied the same epistemic position of Russell's tragic chicken who was misled by its "crude expectations of uniformity" to expect the farmer to continue to feed it indefinitely into the future:
The man who has fed the chicken everyday throughout its life at last wrings
its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature
would have been useful to the chicken.
The existential question this raises for us is thus: are we the contemporary equivalents of those urban residents of Phnom Penh on the morning of April 17, 1975, blithely expecting our ways of life to persist indefinitely into the future, all the time unknowing of the Chaos lurking underneath the seemingly stable foundations of our existence?
-Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim
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telnet brigandine.org 9390
A chat like system thing that still runs, after like 15 years. Still no fFucking banner ads.
A chat like system thing that still runs, after like 15 years. Still no fFucking banner ads.
Rochester, Earth
Beautiful
Belgium
Yes! I want this feature, so bad.
hahaha wow the last panel makes it.
New York, NY
I made a chat system just like this
New York City
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Atlanta, GA
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
"And it doesn't pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there's no way to set your name at all. You just have to keep reminding people who you are."