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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been wondering for a while:
millennials/gen-z were handed a bunch of technical debt as our overarching generational causes — is there precedent for a whole generation primarily fixing jankiness, instead of just making the janky stuf obsolete via their “ideas worth spreading”?
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It’s not an evangelism problem. It’s getting sick of shiny new things that overpromise and underdeliver while the unsexy crap piles up. At some point people naturally switch gears.
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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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This sense comes through in the history of interwar innovation in specific sectors. Radio and airplane are good examples.
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