We are better at rendering artifacts useless rather than gracefully dead. We’re great at harvesting the last dregs of value from a thing but not at then putting it out of its zombie state misery. Crappiness of technologies like recycling/reuse/circularity are only a symptom.
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Caricature though it is, Marie Kondo’s animism (thanking objects for their service before disposal etc) points the way to an ethos of object mortality/impermanence informing engineering. Design for wabi-sabi.
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HHG. Hitchhikers Guide
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I did! Unfortunately recently killed the server I was hosting some of the stuff on, but I wrote a recent thing for this book. http://bit.ly/314MHlX Also, a lot of the original essays were extended from
@bruces Viridian Design work: http://bit.ly/310zfPT
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Cradle to grave, baby, cradle to grave.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I love it. I’m howling.
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Are you sure you're not detecting false resonances between our thought streams? I'm gonna have to run some tests when we meet

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