by Andrew Whitacre on September 26, 2014 Podcast: Caetlin Benson-Allott, “By Design: Or, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control” Georgetown’s Caetlin Benson-Allott on how the technical and design evolution of remote controls reveal how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media, consumer electronics, and each other.