We Built the Machine in Our Own Image: Design, AI, and the Failure of Imagination

What we are witnessing here is not a response to a technological shift. It is the continuation of an old habit: the attempt to regulate the future using the language of the past.

We Built the Machine in Our Own Image: Design, AI, and the Failure of Imagination

A designer, particularly one working within the traditions of interaction design and experiential thinking articulated by Pontus Wärnestål, would begin elsewhere. Not with copyright as a fixed structure, but with a redefinition of the experience itself.

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