What we’re doing
Technology, techne, craft—we humans define ourselves as toolmaking animals. First we make our tools. But then the unexpected happens. Our tools remake us.
How Tech Feels is a series of freshly written essays that explore how technologies shape us—our perspectives, our relationships—and how, through them, how we remake the world. Here, tech’s creators and critics share their personal origin stories. Together their voices form a larger narrative about where our technologies might be headed and who, in turn, we might become.
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If you are interested in sharing or writing an essay, please contact info at howtechfeels dot org.
We are seeking personal stories from tech’s shapers that explore their relationships with a particular technology (computation and artificial intelligence, biotech, particle physics, etc.). Essays should explore how the technology has informed and continues to inform the their relationship with the people and world around them.
Please send a query with a detailed summary of the essay rather than the whole piece.
Daniel Grushkin
Founder & Editor in ChiefDaniel Grushkin is Chief Strategist at TomTex, a next generation materials biotechnology company. He is the writer and producer of Parables for the Biotech Future, a multimedia art performance. He is Founder of Biodesign Challenge, an international student competition and education program that partners artists, designers, and scientists with students to imagine and create the future of biotechnology. He is the Editor of the anthology Grow the Future.
He is Cofounder of Genspace, a nonprofit community laboratory dedicated to promoting citizen science and access to biotechnology. He was a Fellow at Data & Society, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and an Emerging Leader in Biosecurity at the John Hopkins Center of Health Security, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. As a journalist, he has reported on the intersection of biotechnology, culture, and business for publications including Bloomberg Businessweek, Fast Company, Scientific American and Popular Science.
Melissa Chen
Design DirectorMelissa Chen is an Industrial Design student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She is lead designer and organization president of Design for America. As project intern at the ODIN Exhibition, she developed designs for New York Comic Con and other international trade shows. Melissa is passionate about human-centered experience design. Her work, focusing on ecology and accessibility, creates emotional connections through imaginative storytelling. She has two cats and enjoys dream journaling.
