Conservative vs. Liberal UX
Tomorrow, @Luca, a friend of mine, will discuss the badly phrased question “Is the Internet Making Us Dumb” on one of the more prestigious Austrian talk shows Club 2.
This will be especially intriguing, as Luca and his main argumentative adversary Frank Schirrmacher, publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, will likely engage upon many questions deeply related to the broader meaning of the term user experience.
Schirrmacher seems to rather support theories that show people as victims of bad computer-human relationships and offers few ideas on how to handle these challenges in an integrating way.
Luca on the other hand believes that with proper understanding, education and self-responsibility all the concerns of Mr. Schirrmacher can be laid to rest.
I expect a discussion of conservatism vs. liberalism about how people should handle privacy, information overload and communication in modern times.
I hope for a discussion about how good or bad user experiences shapen our fears or visions of the future of how we will handle the ever increasing tides of information.
