10×10, a sort of visual Google News, presents an interesting example of information design.
However, as 10×10 claims to present the world according to the Beeb, the Old Gray Lady, and Reuters, does it function so much as a definition of the time, or as a commentary on the powerful control of corporate news? It seems like such a small sample, and we’re still relying on the big media companies to edit the world into our front pages. For a hundred possibilities, perhaps it is telling that there were only four discrete images on display in a recent visit. In essence, what our minds intake about the world is still seen through the filtered glasses of Reuters et al. This being a Kantian critique, our knowledge of what exists is thereby determined by these companies. How about a 10×10 that exposes visually what is not being covered by those companies?
How to design something more democratic, more exposing of the phenomenal?
November 23rd, 2004 | Current, Information, Philosophy | No comments
