{"id":1316,"date":"2018-09-05T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2018-09-05T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:53:37","slug":"the-benefits-of-slow-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/09\/05\/the-benefits-of-slow-software\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Slow Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the September 2018 issue of <em>Wired<\/em> magazine Clive Thompson argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/software-to-help-us-slow-down-not-speed-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we need software to help slow us down, not speed up<\/a>. He discusses &#8220;friction engineering,&#8221; which is &#8220;software that&#8217;s designed not to speed us up but to slow us down. It\u2019s a principle that inverts everything we know about why software exists.&#8221; In social scientific circles, a great example the article cites is the social media site Nextdoor&#8217;s attempts to redesign its software to reduce racial profiling [see also my <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/08\/13\/nextdoor-racial-profiling-2018-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2018 pos<\/a>t.]<\/p>\n<p>One strange item about the article: the online title is &#8220;We Need Software to Help Us Slow Down, Not Speed up.&#8221; In the print magazine, however, the article appears on page 38 as &#8220;Slow Software: In Praise of Fiction.&#8221; Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the September 2018 issue of Wired magazine Clive Thompson argues that we need software to help slow us down, not speed up. He discusses &#8220;friction engineering,&#8221; which is &#8220;software that&#8217;s designed not to speed us up but to slow us down. It\u2019s a principle that inverts everything we know about why software exists.&#8221; In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14,732,193,12],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-race","tag-social-media","tag-stratification","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}