Johnathan Harris's Ted talks at the AIGA Gain Conference.
Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects range from building the world’s largest time capsule to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean. He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine, which measures the emotional temperature of the human world through large-scale blog analysis, and created recent projects about online dating, modern mythology, anonymity, news and language.
Johnathan's thoughts:
Empathy: A good person makes a bad programmer
Rational Beings: Always one in code but not in real life
The Act of Expression: Layers of abstraction make it hard to express yourself
Resistance of the medium: Your first vision will always be wrong
Individuality: It is possible for technology to help with self reflection not just self promotion.
Housing Crisis: Dealing with individual places/spaces/pages on the net.
Outcome over Ideas: Ideas are way of getting to your goal, but your goal is the goal.
Question to ponder: Is the thing you are making, making life better for people as humans, not just people as consumers?
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