Shownotes Transcript
This episode (Chase Van Etten) & Daniel Keller)) chat with Orion Reed) (@OrionReedOne)), a software engineer & researcher focused on the intersection of computing, human-systems interfaces, and emancipatory politics. Orion is engineer-in-residence at tldraw), researcher at Block Science), and contributor to the Liberatory Computing) collective. His motto is “advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing.”
Highlights:
- The need for alternative visions for computing and reasons to be dissatisfied with the current state of software.
- Some of the ways HCI) research can assist in efforts to reorganize societal structures.
- How left-leaning crypto-optimism went from being a central narrative to relatively niche over the last decade.
- Integration domains and the need for more cross-pollination between disparate disciplines and communities
- The potential for new TfT) concepts like Spatial Canvases to push us out of our current siloed, windowed app based local maxima (Check out Orion’s talk) on the topic)
- Cool developments in AI enabled malleable software like Websim)
- The differences between ‘ephemeral’ and ‘compostable’ software
Artwork: René Magritte, “La Condition Humaine”, 1935