Longitudinal

About

A journal for slow thinking about fast technology.

Longitudinal is an independent publication launched in October 2024 by Soren DeOrlow, Director of Product Innovation, Resonance Partners. It is a space for applied exploration and critical discussion of the technologies reshaping how we work, build, and care for one another — particularly artificial intelligence and the design practices that surround it.

The pace of change in AI has outstripped most of our institutions' ability to make sense of it. New capabilities arrive faster than our frameworks for evaluating them. Decisions about how to deploy these systems — in healthcare, in defense, in everyday consumer products — are being made now, often without the benefit of considered debate. Longitudinal is one small contribution to that debate.

Posts move slowly, by design. Better one essay a quarter that holds up than ten posts that don't. Expect field notes from real product work, policy reflections, ethical frameworks for builders, and history that situates current developments in a longer arc.

About the author

Soren DeOrlow is Director of Product Innovation at Resonance Partners, a San Diego innovation consultancy. He has worked with organizations including Johnson & Johnson, Stanford Medicine, and UCSF's Department of Surgery on the application of emerging technologies to healthcare and product design. He holds a Master's degree in Integrated Design, Business, and Technology from USC and is named on multiple patents.

Get in touch

Email soren@resonancepartners.us. I read everything; I reply when I can.