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Just as our desire for innovation stems from a place of growth, so too does it stem from a place of dissatisfaction with our current capabilities: Our technologies often encapsulate and expose the very dissatisfactions we are attempting to leave behind.
These dissatisfactions can often reflect specific feelings of shame we have within ourselves. While shame is not necessarily negative, it is a reactionary emotion that, if left unchecked, can become dangerous. Inadequacy highly-steeped in shame creates untethered dissatisfaction.
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Untethered dissatisfaction can lead to technologies that place ourselves in a never-ending and unrealistic cycle of escaping shameful inadequacy via technological aids.
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In turn, the trajectories of our technology become increasingly controlling, exploitative, neurotic and insidious as both creator and users cope with the cycle of dissatisfaction and shame.
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By acknowledging the presence of these emotions within our technologies, we can start to better understand why such technologies that set out with good intentions, may turn sour– driving us further and further away from ourselves, our needs, and our initial goals.
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This web publication suggests a humility-based design innovation framework to compliment and guide our feelings of shame and dissatisfaction, subsequently guiding our technologies and fostering well-rounded innovation.
