Humans Beyond Function Redesigning Access to Life When Machines Do the Work Kemi C. Amusan Essay V The Age of Access
Industrial civilization became remarkably skilled at creating value. The next civilization may be judged by something different: how effectively it enables people to reach, use, and participate in the value civilization has already created. Access is not a philosophy of sameness or redistribution. It is a philosophy of possibility, concerned with the barriers that separate human potential from the conditions through which that potential can become useful.