Infants die here at a rate five times that of the country as a whole. Children give birth to children unaware of what they themselves might become with more knowledge of the world and of their own hearts. I have seen three generations of a family bed-ridden in one room. I have not yet learned to ignore the hacking coughs of young children whose only source of heat on cold nights is an unvented kerosene heater. Planning for information exchange should be based upon human needs not upon the limitations of currently available technology.
Machines change rapidly.
The design challenge should be very simply how to support the humanity of all of us. As an artist I know that a picture begins with boundaries. By framing the problem of ethics in relation to human needs rather than in relation to machine-based systems or commercial entities we set ourselves the necessary ground for being truly compassionate. By predicating design upon the needs of specific human beings we extend the range of choices available to us all. I consider it ethically mandatory as well as creatively liberating to focus upon human beings in all their wondrous and sad and mad and glad needs and desires.