Essays

John Thackara|Essays

Local Knowledge [September 2002]

Report on Mining Civilizaational Knowledge, Ezio Manzini, DoorEast, the second India Design Summit in Mumbai, Charles Leadbeater, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Time in Design [July 2002]

Report on Doors 7 speakers, pervasive computing, the relationship between time and design, BodyMedia, new models for interactive services, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Flow As a Design Issue [June 2002]

Report on the Doors of Perception Flow conference, the European ban on uncolicited bulk e-mail, Anna Tilroe's opinion on museums, the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), John Thackara's In the Bubble column, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Museum Hit by Love Bug [May 2002]

Report on the new Doors of Perception website, Doors 7 registration, "Unplugged: Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts," economic damage caused by computer viruses, the European Commission's Intellectual Property Rights help desk, and …

John Thackara|Essays

The Real-time Economy [April 2002]

Report on the real-time economy, Doors of Perception 7, Tom Kok, Project F, the Cybersonica festival at the ICA in London, and more.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Way We Live Now: Me, My Brand And I

About a year and a half ago, a colleague of mine whom I'll call Steve Theory walked into my office, shut the door behind him and asked my advice about some recent job offers. Without a hint of sarcasm, he explained, ''I just want to do …

Rob Walker|Essays

The Way We Live Now: Fauxhemian Rhapsody

Pastis, the Parisian-style bistro that recently opened in New York's meatpacking district, is a restaurant with an idea. The menu is unpretentious, ''simple,'' the owner has explained, and ''there will be no reservations.''