Computing for the 22nd Century: More-than-human to see the environmental footprints of profound technologies

Paper in proceeding, 2024

Over the past 40 years, human-centered design has driven technologicaldevelopment, seamlessly integrating technologies intoour everyday lives. However, this “disappearing act” has led tothese technologies’ environmental footprints becoming invisible.Building on three illustrative examples, we contribute to the currentdevelopment of the more-than-human design approach by suggesting1) this approach is a useful analytical lens to foreground theenvironmental footprint of today’s emerging profound technologiesstarting to “disappear”, and 2) instead of upholding a dichotomybetween human vs. more-than-human, we can use the more-thanhumanapproach to unify these two in efforts to establish a visionfor the 22nd century that explores holistic approaches for morethan-human worlds.