Awakening the better angelsPart 1: Life as an entanglement of mutual obligation by Nicholas Gruen at Web Directions Next 2024
Awakening the better angels
Part 1: Life as an entanglement of mutual obligation
Awakening the better angels
Part 1: Life as an entanglement of mutual obligation
User Life centred design
A $700Bn data delusion.
AI has had many ‘springs’ over the decades, with its promise always just around the corner. In 1970, an early AI pioneer (his legacy is now quite odious) predicted: “In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” This wasn’t the last time such […]
Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX
At the start of this year, I wrote The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again, which began by calling back to the Internet of 2000. In thinking more about it, though, we more closely resemble the Internet of a few years later, where the crash of the dot-com bubble and the stock market had […]
Interledger, a protocol for the future of money
Why We Need Fiction
One of the most focused areas in the use of large language models, which has arguably seen the best outcomes, is in software development. Both numerous startups and established players in the IDE market now offer generative AI solutions. OpenAI recently launched their ‘canvas’ UI, which is similar to Claude’s UI for working with code. […]
At last year’s Web Directions Summit one of the attendees (I try to chat to as many as I can) and I had quite a long conversation. His concern was that the keynote talks in particular were a little ‘pessimistic’. In a sense I could see what he meant. They certainly weren’t unalloyed optimism. Not Techno–Optimism as […]
The Future of Social Media: An Optimistic Take
Nudges, behaviour change and complex systems
It’s no secret we’re fans of the web platform here at Web Directions—it’s in our name, after all. One aspect of the platform that we’ve long felt is underappreciated is Web Components. Part of this is because support for Web Components, as well as the technology itself, developed gradually over a long period. Until recently […]
A few weeks back we announced the lineup for Next, our brand new conference. Drawing on experts in economics, game theory, design, finance, data science, social psychology, behavioural economics and more, Next aims to reignite your thinking about the challenges you’re facing right now–from business models, to better user interaction, the (real, non hyped) place […]
A lot going on at the moment React is a central plank in many teams’ technology stacks, and at Web Directions we’re very mindful of that. On Conffab, our platform for conference presentations, you’ll find talks tagged React are among the most common. For the last couple of years at our Summit, we’ve had a […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
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