Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

by Mike Monteiro

When the sun crosses the Earth, it collects our stories along the way. Tales of outrage, aggression, marginalization, and exclusion. Tales of toxic masculinity and racism. Tales of teenagers being abused online to the point of suicide. Tales of women being harassed and threatened with unthinkable things. Tales of immigrants being abducted while they drop their children off at school. Tales about the tools we built with our own hands and enabled. That same sun eventually sets on Silicon Valley, a big flaming orange ball dropping into the ocean at the end of America, at the end of capitalism. Let the fires we set rival the orange glow of that setting sun. Let it all burn down. Let those that come after us sift through the ashes to learn from our mistakes.