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  • Paperback: 331 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press; New edition edition (3 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262701154
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262701150
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 14.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 63,219 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"I eagerly devoured every last page of John Thackara's lofty, captivating book." - Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown, Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years and Shaping Things "If you've ever found yourself saying, 'bad TiVO,' design critic John Thackara is talking to you." - Fast Company"


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This title shows you how to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. 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 book, "In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World." "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-cantered 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A freestyle design symposium echoing many voices, 13 Dec 2007
By Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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John Thackara calls himself a "symposiarch," someone who puts together groups of creative people, assigns them a lofty theme and then observes the colloquy. This book is a little like a classical Greek symposium. It's a loosely structured conversation with many voices, a freestyle rush into 10 clusters of ideas on how designers - architects, industrial designers, artists, engineers, urban planners and others - should be thinking about today's big design issues, including sustainability, needless complexity, and the frenetic pace of the social and business worlds. Does Thackara have answers? Not really. His flamboyantly expressed suggestions would probably collapse if examined carefully. But, surprisingly, the book is no weaker for that. It is not a design manual or manifesto. Rather, we find that it's a work designed to get you to free-associate and open your mind to new possibilities. If your creativity is cooling, this book may do what Kafka suggested all literary creations should do: break up the frozen sea inside you.
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