Technosophy – Defined

Technosophy is a “wise” approach to technology design, assessment, implementation and management. It goes beyond traditional technical-engineering and economics-driven approach to involve a more multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective approach, especially at the design and assessment phases. Technosophy involves philosophical inquiry alongside engineering design to produce “purposeful” technological applications. A technosophic approach to design is a multi-perspective,…

The Importance of Being Digitally Lost

Lost and Found in the Digital Realm A major effort has been taking place on planet Earth to ensure that the human race doesn’t get lost. This effort was aimed at the developed world but is also increasingly turning its attention to developing countries as well. This effort has centred around the word “search”. Search,…

WATCH: Stepping into Inconvenient Variety

This was my new year reflection for 2020. What are the consequences of living in a binary world, a life of either-or, of one or zero? Life has a quality where the spaces in between the ones and zeros may contain the telling content…

The Rise of Horizontal Trust

When hierarchies break down or fail us, horizontal trust tends to emerge. A hierarchy is a vertical form of organisation. Armies are hierarchies. Many religious systems are hierarchies. Families are hierarchies. In vertical hierarchies, power increases at highly levels. Often (but not always), accountability also is higher the higher up you go. In a bank,…