Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.
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Traffic engineering: cars first; safety last
No other branch of civil engineering tolerates this level of system failure. In any other field, if engineers knew that systems would fail catastrophically about 30 times this year and knew when, where, and why that was most likely to happen, they would be required to intervene or shut everything down.
The only professional pseudo-science that also gets taken seriously and makes less intellectual sense than traffic engineering might be parking minimums. My occasional tarot reading by a friend is significantly more science-based than the intellectual work behind parking minimums.
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Minding the gap
Design Engineers are well-positioned to step into the gap between product design and engineering and help close it from both sides.
A bit on writing & publishing
The one in which I participate in the “blogging” chain letter that has been making the rounds in the indie web community.