city
limits
.
Designing out these frictions ‘upstream’ - in apps - is having serious impacts downstream, in the city. Our pick-up and put-down where we want culture is more than just a public nuisance, but part of a re-wiring of the city that serves subscribers first.
(7)What are the deeper ecological costs of environments that adapt to us (and not even all of us) rather than asking us to adapt to them?
(8)
9.Upstream/Downstream Impact Mapping
7. Users vs. ‘Usees’
8. “The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control.”
Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, p5
9. A novel methodology has been developed for linking upstream digital strategies with downstream physical-world implications: Impact Mapping.