Amber Case
Founder
Calm Tech Institute
October 28–30 · Vancouver
What technology feels like when it's built for people instead of markets, and the words to ask for it.
Wed 28 · 6:45–7:25 PM
Calm Technology in the Age of Loud Machines
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Calm Technology
The 2015 O'Reilly book behind the whole idea. Principle one: tech should need the smallest possible amount of your attention.
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Her 2010 TEDWomen talk on the phone as a second self, one that needs maintenance and emotional energy. Over two million views.
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The institute's 81-point review of how a product treats your attention. AI is on the list of what it certifies.
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About Amber Case
Amber Case is the founder of the Calm Tech Institute and author of Calm Technology, whose work gives builders and institutions practical language for designing technology that respects attention, agency, and everyday life. She found the idea in 2007, in old Xerox PARC papers, while writing a thesis on the iPhone. Her institute offers the world's first certification for attention-based design, an 81-point review of how a product treats your focus, and it covers AI products too. She has written four books, including A Kids Book About Technology, and her 2010 TED talk, We Are All Cyborgs Now, has more than two million views. She spent two years as a fellow at MIT's Center for Civic Media and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Before the institute she was co-founder and CEO of Geoloqi, a location software company acquired by Esri, and National Geographic named her an Emerging Explorer in 2012.
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- Wednesday · October 286:45–7:25 PM
Calm Technology in the Age of Loud Machines
Amber wrote the book on calm technology, and the first talk of the festival is hers: what AI should feel like when it is built for people instead of markets, and what it costs us when it is not. Then ten minutes of questions from the audience.
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