At 09:01 07/12/2001 -0600, Christena Nippert-Eng wrote:
>Yes, I agree with Mattias, et al, about responsibility. Whether one
>designs a theory, methods, analytical framework, an object, whatever --
>there is only so much control one has over what happens to it once you let
>it go. The trick is to have thought carefully about one's own best
>guesses in what might happen with it, taking best and worst cases in mind,
>and deciding if that's alright with you.
Hopefully as well as using ones own best guesses, one would attempt to test
the design as thoroughly as possible before unleashing it on the public?
Then one should have more of idea about the ways in which it could be used
or misused, and if necessary make changes.
Thea Blackler
School of Design and Built Environment
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