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Capitalist tool, humanist tool
Author(s) -
Robinson Rick E.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
design management journal (former series)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1948-7169
pISSN - 1045-7194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1948-7169.2001.tb00539.x
Subject(s) - humanism , sociology , control (management) , business , environmental ethics , engineering ethics , management , economics , political science , law , engineering , philosophy
I n a compelling and highly creative intellectual odyssey, Rick Robinson ponders the connections among contemporary technologies, fundamental human values, economic theory, and the role of design. At the end of his journey, he emerges an optimist, confident that design can be the pathway to humanizing our increasingly abstract world and an opportunity to put users, rather than producers, in control of our most valuable resources.