Paul’s talk at Lift2008 is a great encapsulation of many of the most important insights on the imbrication of technology-and-design and some of the difficulties of being a technologist who is challenged by the expectations that social sciences are supposed to provide fuel in the form of “implications” to inform engineering. Pfft. I was with him 110%. Give this one a close listen.
Nice talk, I like the ideas he put forward. His paper “Implications for Design” is also worth reading, same questions as this talk but answered in more detail.