aka, The value of human designers in the era of AI (and no, it’s not about empathy) — It was 1969 and Philip Dick was writing the novel that have inspired Blade Runner. Speculating on the distinctive aspects between humans and replicants (basically, Artificial Intelligence) he asked: “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” Then came 2017, and with no explicit intention to answer, Milton Glaser designed a poster…

a.k.a. how to save Creativity in a world dominated by Frameworks — Frameworks are the most dangerous and useful of things. I suspect that this duality applies to more than just frameworks, like bombs, or love, or sandwiches; but frameworks are dangerous and useful in a peculiar way, as their dangerousness comes, in fact, from their usefulness. And even if this, as well, may…

What stays if you shout down the body? — I’m not sure when I wrote “floating in a sensory deprivation tank” on one of my personal cards of wishes — but it worked: last Monday I floated. I first read about “sensory deprivation tanks” in a book about brain-machine interfaces. In the introductory carousel on the history of neuroscience…

aka: how sea-sponges may teach us something about Information Architecture — How many times do we hear the pairing of the terms “flow” & “information”? It’s a pretty used one, and it honestly works very well. We can easily imagine information as something that flows, like a liquid. And, as so, it takes the shape of its container, can move in…

a.k.a. a collective game of individual choices — It is easy to associate the word evolution with the name of Charles Darwin. The English gentleman, father of the theory of natural selection, has revolutionised the idea of evolution pointing out how the existence of a rational design behind all the perfect mechanism of nature could be simply a…