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If one meets a powerful person — Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates– ask them five questions:

• What power have you got?
• Where did you get it from?
• In whose interests do you exercise it?
• To whom are you accountable?
• And how can we get rid of you?

—Tony Benn, House of Commons in 2001

Bill Verplank on how interaction design used to be and Jack Schulze on how that mental map or model is redundant now

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Lying about the future makes history

— Umberto Eco

“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us”