Deliberate Intervention

'Do no harm' is Alex Schmidt’s mantra throughout Deliberate Intervention—a book that delves into how policy and design can work together to prevent harms in technology. Using the journalistic approach she employed as an NPR reporter, Schmidt studies the history of policy making, its biases, and its evolution in the changing technology field. The beginning of each chapter highlights a graphic showing the transformation of policy and design, drawn by well-known illustrator, MJ Broadbent.

Readers will learn:
-How policy and design can partner.
-The history of policy and how evident harms have led to policy interventions and improvements.
-As harms emerge from technology, individuals and companies really do have the tools to intervene.
-Government can control harms with new policies.
-How to create better policy with solid design measures.
-What the future looks like for people with the advent of new technology.

Who this book is for:
This book is for anyone who is concerned about the harms of technology and interested in ways to circumvent them, i.e., policy makers, CEOs of tech companies, IT people, designers, lawyers, security analysts, product managers, healthcare workers, historians, writers—in other words, just about everyone. It’s particularly helpful for anyone who is designing anything that involves technology and is worried about the potential harm in their decision-making.