Author imagines ethical information technology
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Madeline Ashby has published the first installment of Boyfriend, a story about a girl from the future preparing for prom. How does she prepare? By pillow talking with an artificial intelligence program that helps her find out the supply chain history of the dresses she’s choosing. Seems more like she’s interviewing for potential prom dress candidates, actually. Kind of neat to see the kind of work we’re doing at Buy It Like You Mean It start to impact the realm of art and imagination. Thanks for the story, Madeline!
December 12th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hi guys! Mark linked me here and I’m so pleased you thought of me! Honestly, I think you’re going to find supply chain histories working their way even deeper into fiction and art. We as humans are fascinated, even driven, by narrative, and I think that there’s a current trend toward learning as many of the steps between raw material and doorstep as possible. Certainly it’s there in food, so I don’t see why clothes or other goods would be any different.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Maybe get Madeline in on the little responsible consumption consortium we’ve got going on? She’s a storyteller. Could be a great perspective.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
What does the consortium do, exactly?
December 29th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Hi, Madeline. Jake is talking about a bunch of Ethical Information Services that we’ve been meeting with lately. Among other things we’ve been sharing ideas about the next generation of user information applications.
Please let us know what you think about the user studies that we’re currently doing. You can see our user stories at http://groups.google.com/group/user-centered-design/web/user-scenerios and share your ideas by emailing me at GetInvolved@bilumi.org.
Thanks!
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:57 am
What a comprehensive vision of user scenarios! Putting myself in the place of a procrastinator (or maybe already being there) I can see daily contests and challenges to contribute over time as being effective.