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I have to admit, I loved reading this. I relished like a smooth, hard, and cold drag on a cheap lager at the end of a hot July day. I’ve always wondered what happens to forecasters when their future(s) goes all pear-shaped? Trend forecasters predict a more trendless
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Design as escapism I like history a lot. I like the present maybe a little less, and I tell myself the future is something we can’t quiver in terror of, despite doing that all the time. I can never make up my mind really. Whether this is some outcropping
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If there’s one thing that intrigues me, it’s how different things work in different parts of the world. Let me illustrate this with elevator and waiting room etiquette. If you live in the US or the UK, and you step into an elevator or into a waiting room,
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I was reminded of a story my, aunt in what was once Yugoslavia, told me one time. It was 1968 and the Soviet Union had just invaded and crushed a nascent independence movement in Czechoslovakia. Bear in mind this country was already Communist but apparently not enough. What she described
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I’ve been reading a lot about AI, Deep Learning, Machine Learning and all the other names and acronyms that tally along with it. I don’t know whether to think of it like a code-based dictator on the horizon, looming over our futures while we somehow wake up one
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I’m late on a lot of things. I’m late on having kids, discovering Zam-rock, discovering psychedelic music, saying I’m a product designer instead of interaction designer, etc. The list goes on. One of those things is reading the sci-fi classic by Neil Stephenson, “Snowcrash.” The huge irony
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I’m late on a lot of things. I’m late on having kids, discovering Zamrock, saying I’m a product designer instead of interaction designer and then I’ll be late with what I’m supposed to call it as of last month. The list goes on. One of
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That’s right. Actually quit. I summed up the balls of the design ages and nailed my thesis to the cathedral door and all of that. I even went so far as to uninstall all of it. Well on one machine at any rate. Adobe, I’ve quit you. I’
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I believe in using design to solve problems. Real problems, not imaginary ones that might be in some fantistical future. You know, the future that looks like a cross between a shit “Logan’s Run” and Muji. But ones today that are real and are always a product of what
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I’ve somehow managed to not see Bladerunner until a little bit ago. The thing that I liked most about it was that it presented not a pretty bland, middle class vision of the future. It was autocratic, messy, big and Chinese. Yes there were robots, but people didn’t
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Anybody with the word future in their job title might as well call themselves a faith healer and I would believe them a lot more. In fact, with the amount of money being thrown at them vs. what they deliver they’re a lot more exploitive. “At best, your “foresight”
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I’m pretty fed up with the future. The design world seems so absolutely obsessed with the idea of inventing the future that today, yesterday and anything that isn’t nearly as exciting as a jetpack or an augmented brain is seen as quite lame. Reality, as always, gets chucked