IN THE BUBBLE

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. In the B ubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not i n a remote science fiction future/ it's not about, as he puts it, the schlock of the new but about radical innovation already emergi ng in dai...[Read more]