Open ideas and questions about how people and technology should be:

Playful

• Humans are innately playful
• Don't need to be so serious all the time
• Fun
• Technology doesn't need to be boring
• Accessible - everyone can get "fun". It is inviting
• Subversive - playful on the outside, meaningful on the inside

Connected

• Connected to people
• Connected to nature
• Connected to purpose
• Connect vastness to the singular, and the singular to the vast - the forest to the tree, and the tree to the forest. Cyclical.
• Connect disparate systems/ideas - software/hardware/design/content/people
• Technology enables connection. It's the medium

Human

• Humanist
• Naturalistic
• Human centered/focused
• Purposeful
• Technology can be meaningful
• The root of where technology comes from
• People love stories. Fiction is powerful

Why "Forest in the Tree"?

A forest is made of trees, and trees make up a forest. "Forest in the Tree" captures the evolving, interrelated, and often inverted socio-technical relationship of people and technology.