Our interface with the built (and unbuilt) environment is being designed for us by Tech Bros.

With virtual and augmented reality pressing ever closer to seamless interfaces (not to mention middle class market accessibility), our expertise – as architects capable of simultaneously solving technical problems, venturing cultural possibilities, and accounting for political consequences – is completely lacking from the conversation. As the ongoing political train wreck comprised of twitter and facebook (among others) show, when socially disruptive technology is developed by a tech industry that views disruption as its own virtue, catastrophic results can and will ensue. 

It is clear that the ethical and political acumen of our fields must begin to both influence and adjust to a paradigm under which social structures are even further mediated by digital interfaces—interfaces which must be designed.