Chasing Innovation and Geek Heresy: Two Book Reviews for the Price of OneEverybody wants to write about India. Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Adam Smith were all deeply influenced by the experiences they had with…Mar 141Mar 141
America the BeautifulWhen I was growing up, America was still a compelling idea. A place where anything was possible, with unimaginable entertainments and…Jul 14, 2022Jul 14, 2022
Party Like its 2021Everything is going to get better! We only need to work together and believe! After all, aren’t the injustices of the past only momentary…Jul 14, 2022Jul 14, 2022
The End of ICTD?As I watched chaos unfold at the Kabul airport last week, I couldn’t help but imagine that some of those people caught up in the panic —…Aug 22, 20211Aug 22, 20211
On Destruction in Design(This piece is co-written with my student Samar Sabie. It also appears in n the December 2020 issue of ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society…Jan 15, 2021Jan 15, 2021
Design for Implications: Karl Marx comes for HCIAs Marx famously said, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” When we…Jul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020
My Experiences with Knownet-GRIN(This is a story I wrote for a very early ICTD publication launched by a World Bank funding program called InfoDev that was influential at…Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020
Nothing is ever “empty”“It was empty”. I will never forget the mayor’s words as he talked about how NYC Health and Hospitals Coler facility was being converted…Apr 16, 2020Apr 16, 2020
Liberate the Internet and its Core ApplicationsIf you are like me, your mind has been racing for the last few days, alternating between a somber realization of the grim toll this crisis…Mar 22, 20204Mar 22, 20204
