Machines Are Trained to Narrow Our Views, Not Broaden Them

John Maeda
5 min readJan 23, 2021
“Sugar Cubes” (2003) from my show at Cristinerose Gallery entitled “F00D”

Whenever I start to feel my worldview shrinking, instead of thinking expansively and looking outwards, there’s a passage from David Foster Wallace’s famous “This Is Water” commencement speech that speaks out to me:

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John Maeda

John Maeda: Technologist and product experience leader that bridges business, engineering, design via working inclusively. Currently VP Design and A.I. at MSFT.