A few years ago I collaborated with Michelle Kasprzak and a bunch of colleagues at the University of Michigan on a book of haiku, where the common theme was responsible technological innovation.
The haiku came out of a workshop where we brought together a group of people from an eclectic set of disciplinary backgrounds to grapple with the meaning of “responsible innovation” in today’s increasingly complex world.
At the end of the workshop, rather than produce yet another boring report that no-one would read, we decided to pool our combined scholarly and creative minds and come up with a series of haiku that reflected the complexities and nuances of our ideas.
And just because we could, we arranged these in a haiku format – seventeen seventeen-syllable haiku on responsible innovation!
As well as reading the published book here, you can also download it as a PDF, or follow along as they are posted on Instagram.
