These things evolved in Sun and DEC Alpha workstations and later model SG machines through the 90s until they kinda died out in the early 2000s. They were replaced by basic PCs with commodity hardware and OSes. They simply didn't add enough differentiated "producer UX" value.
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Hmm. Interesting looking ref: https://twitter.com/JaycelAdkins/status/1298333693933740033 …
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I was not familiar with this body of literature, nice... I only read random historical/biographical snippets.https://twitter.com/aresnick/status/1298328932316598279 …
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BTW, though I've framed this as a UX type problem, it isn't really. It's basically a macroeconomic problem. Consumerization as a 130 year old historical trend (I date it to 1890 when the home stopped also being a workshop) needs to gives way to high-tech neo-producerism
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I'm very wary of what someone aptly dubbed techwashed pastoralism, so I don't producerism in the older Thomas Jefferson sense or the wood-working-with-hand-tools sense. I'm talking replacing consumer culture with last-mile circular economies, 100% full-lifecycle ownership etc.
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In this context, the home/life as a producer space isn't a sort of waldenponding for NPC maker-doers. It's sort of a thick-client for the cloudy infrastructure world that is a big part of creating a more sustainable material economy.
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Like, one reason I'm experimenting with all this stuff is what I think of as "stack research." Just how much more sustainable/low-carbon could the world get if the home were a locus of repair, making, circular-local trading etc. Not just consumption?
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I’ll close with a picture of these calipers that just arrived from amazon. I find myself asking 2 questions: 1. Where will it live physically? 2. It’s already digital unlike calipers I used in high school in 1989. Why can’t I NFC measurements directly into a spreadsheet?
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Ooh! Beyond my budget, but will put on my lab wishlist for future...https://twitter.com/NickPinkston/status/1298339458895421440 …
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