December 3, 2020 • 17 mins
Throughout the history of civilization, we have seen an ever-increasing need and ability to create, store, and share information. But as our ability to access information grows exponentially, are we as designers, focusing too narrowly on the short-term; designing, developing, and shipping product based on the information and technology available to us today and ignoring what the future might have in store for us? In this episode, Karl Fast, a former professor, the co-author of Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding, and an Information Futurist, explores how we might approach the challenges associated with the exponential growth of information in our uncertain future.
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