Why I made Very Human Beings™.
I made Very Human Beings™ because I have always been interested in the things people keep close: a book with notes in the margin, a story told at a dinner table, an image that changes your mood, a friend who remembers the detail you thought no one noticed.
I am interested in culture, but not as something separate from life. I am interested in the way we use books, films, music, objects, jokes and conversations to make sense of where we are and how we want to live. I am also interested in the way technology now wanders into all of those rooms: the book on a phone, the family group chat, the algorithm that knows a little too much about a private mood.
Dear reader, I am not standing outside any of this with a clipboard. I am in it too: hopeful, suspicious, distracted, grateful, occasionally ridiculous. This project is a place to notice the vulnerable, territorial, tender, vain, loyal and funny ways humans meet the tools we make. When I say human-centred technology, I mean an ongoing collaboration with consequences—not a villain, not a miracle, and certainly not an excuse to stop asking who gets a say.
