Nick Foster
An Interview
"Are there any technological advances that you would say have not been good for humanity? I think the real challenge would be to find something that has wholly been ‘good for humanity’. Every single designed thing has externalities, unexpected consequences, and undocumented impacts. Solving one thing typically introduces new problems, which the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio summarised in his lovely quote ‘when you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck’. Our challenge as the creators of new things is in weighing up the balance between intentional positive impact and unseen, unintentional or unforeseeable negative impact. The work I’m most passionate about focuses on exploring these second and third order implications of design and technology, so that we can either address them, or be better prepared for them." (Nick Foster)
Posted: July 13, 2021, 12:49 PM