The Proper Study Of Mankind Is The

What Information Consumes Is Rather Obvious: It Consumes The Attention Of Its Recipients. Hence A Wealth Of Information Creates A Poverty Of Attention, And A Need To Allocate That Attention Efficiently Among The Overabundance Of Information Sources That Might Consume It.

The Engineer, And More Generally The Designer, Is Concerned With How Things Ought To Be - How They Ought To Be In Order To Attain Goals, And To Function.

Maybe We Ought To Have A World In Which Things Are Divided Between People Kind Of Fairly.

There Are No Morals About Technology At All. Technology Expands Our Ways Of Thinking About Things, Expands Our Ways Of Doing Things. If We're Bad People We Use Technology For Bad Purposes And If We're Good People We Use It For Good Purposes.

The World Is Vast, Beautiful, And Fascinating, Even Awe-inspiring - But Impersonal. It Demands Nothing Of Me, And Allows Me To Demand Nothing Of It.