Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered [Paperback]

How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.

The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth's resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book's three major themes: meaning, sustainability, and humanity-centeredness. Emphasize quality of life, not monetary rewards; restructure how we live to better protect the environment; and focus on all of humanity. Design for a Better World presents an eye-opening diagnosis of where we've gone wrong and a clear prescription for making things better.

Norman proposes a new way of thinking, one that recognizes our place in a complex global system where even simple behaviors affect the entire world. He identifies the economic metrics that contribute to the harmful effects of commerce and manufacturing and proposes a recalibration of what we consider important in life. His experience as both a scientist and business executive gives him the perspective to show how to make these changes while maintaining a thriving economy. Let the change begin with this book before it's too late.TABLE OF CONTENTS...
1 Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed 3
2 Our Artificial Way of Life is Unsustainable 11
3 Why History Matters 15
4 Precise--but Artificial--Measurements 27
5 If Technology Got Us into Today's Situation,
Maybe Technology Can Can Get Us Out 39
6 This Book: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Humanity Centered 47
7 The Need for Meaning 57
8 Measurement in the Physical Sciences 63
9 Measuring What is Important to People 67
10 The Gross Domestic Product 79
11 What Measures Are Truly Important to People? 87
12 HumanlÃ^