(Hardback)

Open-planning introduces citizens to the institutions that make policy as one way of bolstering democractic technological decision making. The use of these systems so far has produced dangerous dichotomy between those who are part of the knowledge elite and those who merely accommodate themselves to technological change.

(Paperback)

The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers.