Ghetto Workspace

Some years ago there was some debate about the rights of consumers to use the wifi in coffee shops. See my posts on Ghetto Wifi, Ghetto Wifi 2. As I pointed out at the time, the scarce resource for the coffee shop is not the wifi but the fact that the …

Ghetto Workspace

Some years ago there was some debate about the rights of consumers to use the wifi in coffee shops. See my posts on Ghetto Wifi, Ghetto Wifi 2. As I pointed out at the time, the scarce resource for the coffee shop is not the wifi but the fact that the …

Machine Indoctrination

March 2013 From my post on Enabling PrejudicesOne of the key insights of the early work on Design Thinking (Bryan
Lawson, Peter Rowe) was the importance of heuristics, or what Rowe
(following Gadamer) calls enabling prejudices, which will hopefu…

Machine Indoctrination

March 2013 From my post on Enabling PrejudicesOne of the key insights of the early work on Design Thinking (Bryan
Lawson, Peter Rowe) was the importance of heuristics, or what Rowe
(following Gadamer) calls enabling prejudices, which will hopefu…