I suspect we’re about to see a zeitgeist-level design ethos swing from “ideas worth spreading” (TED, media lab etc) to “jankiness worth fixing” The specific sordid reasons the trend is reversing now are actually not that important. It would have happened even without scandals.
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And yes, there are precedents. I’d say interwar years (1920-40) were like that.
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Do you have any examples of this from that era? Any article/book you can point me to?
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It's called "planned obsolescence", starting in the 30s but really embraced in 1950s. Need to keep people buying or else...
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