Is There a Way to Connect Sensors and Cameras in the Ceiling?

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I think this speaks to some of the data storage stuff, but then also the aspect of interfaces and how we're engaging with a system and with one another. Have you ever been to Dynamicland? I have not. What is that? Oh, do you know who Brad Victor is? The name sounds familiar, but I'm actually not sure. So he's one of my mentors in inspiration. He builds this immersive computing environment called Dynamicland where there's cameras and microphones in the ceiling or sensors in the ceiling. And so this means that your gestures, the pieces of paper that you lay out on the table, all of these things can be inputs.

In episode 63 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Joe Edelman.

Joe developed the meaning-based organizational metrics at Couchsurfing.com, then co-founded the Center for Humane Technology with Tristan Harris, and coined the term “Time Well Spent” for a family of metrics adopted by teams at Facebook, Google, and Apple. Since then, he's worked on the philosophical underpinnings for new business metrics, design methods, and political movements. The central idea is to make people's sources of meaning explicit, so that how meaningful or meaningless things are can be rigorously accounted for. His previous career was in HCI and programming language design.

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Outline:

* (00:00) Intro (yes Daniel is trying a new intro format)

* (01:30) Joe’s origin story

* (07:15) Revealed preferences and personal meaning, recommender systems

* (12:30) Is using revealed preferences necessary?

* (17:00) What are values and how do you detect them?

* (24:00) Figuring out what’s meaningful to us

* (28:45) The decline of spaces and togetherness

* (35:00) Individualism and economic/political theory, tensions between collectivism/individualism

* (41:00) What it looks like to build spaces, Habitat