Computing for the 22nd Century: More-than-human to see the environmental footprints of profound technologies

Over the past 40 years, human-centered design has driven technological development, seamlessly integrating technologies into our everyday lives. However, this “disappearing act” has led to these technologies’ environmental footprints becoming invisible. Building on three illustrative examples, we contribute to the current development of the more-than-human design approach by suggesting 1) this approach is a useful analytical lens to foreground the environmental footprint of today's emerging profound technologies starting to “disappear”, and 2) instead of upholding a dichotomy between human vs. more-than-human, we can use the more-than-human approach to unify these two in efforts to establish a vision for the 22nd century that explores holistic approaches for more-than-human worlds.