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August 17, 2013 08:00 am GMT

Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future

monastary by  AlicePopkorn2"The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body," William S. Burroughs once said in a Nike commercial, of all places. But things haven't worked out that way, at least not for most of us. Our technologies are designed to maximize shareholder profit, and if that means distracting, confusing or aggregating the end-user, then so be it.

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