Wishlist
We asked two simple questions: what would you like to know or understand better, and what would you say to the people who build technology? These are their answers.
What people want to know1. “I’d like to know more about how devices work.”
— Physiotherapist, Sierra de Huelva, Spain
2. “More technical info on how to repair things myself, and for things to be made so I can do it.”
— Electronics technician, Sierra Norte de Huelva, Spain
3. “It’s very important to have good education about the risks and how to avoid them, and tools to protect people who are very vulnerable. For children, and for me as an adult too.”
— Music teacher and craftswoman, Sierra de Aracena, Spain
4. “Promote support networks and find a balance between the human and the digital.”
— Physiotherapist and farmer, Sierra de Aracena, Spain
5. “Young people’s relationship with digital, and how to make it healthier.”
— Teacher and mother, Sierra de Huelva, Spain
6. “Ethics and tech. Human nature in tech.”
— Educator and researcher, Sierra Norte de Huelva, Spain
7. “How digitalisation affects brain development, and how tech affects us socially. I’m angry, and with reason. I want to know how it works: the backend, the data, the ‘always connected’.”
— Osteopath, Sierra de Aracena, Spain
8. “My new device comes with so many apps. I don’t know what they are, nobody explains what they are for or how I can choose.”
— Farm worker, Sierra Norte de Huelva, Spain
9. “I’d like to know more about AI. I hear and read a lot, but I don’t have the basics. What I know scares me. How can it be limited to what I want, understand and can control? What criteria and values were used?”
— Rural postman, Sierra Norte de Huelva, Spain
10. “How to access events here: political events, global news, things like that.”
— Mechanic and olive grower, Astros, Greece
11. “I want to know more about how reliable the future of digital information can be.”
— Retired taverna owner and olive farmer, Alepochori, Greece
12. “In Greece, things like housing, permits and records are still only on paper. It would be nice to see a digital system evolve.”
— River kayak guide, Menalo Mountain, Greece
13. “I wish there was more access to digitised material, without having to be a professional in each field.”
— Farmer, Laconia, Greece
14. “I’d like to see the studies on what growing up with smartphones does to a generation, compared to pre-smartphone generations.”
— Writer and filmmaker, Arcadia, Greece