Utopianism and technology with Morgan Ames
With Intent
English - September 28, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDesign Arts Business education technology systems design civic design design thinking business purpose design Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the first episode of With Intent, Kristin Gecan talks to Morgan Ames, author of The Charisma Machine, about One Laptop Per Child—a hugely ambitious, or as Morgan defines it, charismatic—project with good intentions: to bring a laptop to every child in the developing world.
We talk about why that project failed, how it connects to utopianism, and what design might learn from it all.
Morgan is a 2021 Latham fellow at the Institute of Design.