Wired have been kind enough to print a thing I wrote.
It's at this URL apparently.
(I'm always too scared to actually look at these things when they appear, I get very anxious about things appearing on platforms I can't alter, it's so irrevocable. Plus there's all the worry about what headline it might have on it).
Most things I write are the products of conversations I've had, I do very little original thinking of my own but it's particularly true for this one.
And a while ago Mark pointed out on twitter the good thing that Ethan Marcotte does at the end of this blog post, thanking the people who've helped him write it.
So, acknowledgements;
Tom Stuart is responsible for reminding me of the term Charismatic Megafauna, which I love. And the undervaluing of domestic technology first struck me through Kim Plowright's talk at Interesting 2008. And the washing machine became the hero of the piece because of many conversations with Rachel Coldicutt.
Thanks to them.
I wish little columns/pieces like this could really have acknowledgements. They'd become a really interesting form in themselves. Like indexes.