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How 'living architecture' could help the world avoid a soul-deadening digital future

  • Written by Tim Gorichanaz, Assistant Teaching Professor of Information Studies, Drexel University
imageWhich lesson should the technology field take from architecture: modernist efficiency or 'living structure'?Jamie Street/Unsplash; Peter Morville/Flickr, CC BY-SA

My first Apple laptop felt like a piece of magic made just for me – almost a part of myself. The rounded corners, the lively shading, the delightful animations. I had been using...

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