Solving the dinosaur gold rush with design research & ethnography — A companion to This app that buys your feelings could redesign the world In the 1970’s, archaeologists were looking for answers about ancient kinship, social, and political organizations. An iconoclast named Lewis R. Binford had new ideas for how to find these answers. He believed that archaeology should investigate all cultural patterns, across all human existence.

Do a quick web search for “innovation stagnation” and you’ll find a flurry of articles bemoaning the state of innovation. Take Bloomberg’s “Innovation won’t overcome stagnation” or Business Insider’s “Silicon Valley is stalling out as the pace of innovation slows down”. It’s hitting every industry imaginable. Virtual reality is increasingly…

In an unsurprising yet exhausting twist, the art world is obsessed with works created by artificial intelligence. If you’ve been keeping up with art news, you’ll know that last October a very generic AI portrait sold for a cool $432,000. It was made by an open-source program called GAN. Christie’s…