I think the right dichotomy might be ugly/easy to use vs beautiful/hard to use, not beautiful vs ugly.
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like fountain pens vs. ball point pens? ;) I call this the "demandingness axis" and it's valuable for its own sake I think
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Yes. I think it is also remarkable when a culture collectively chooses to be demanding instead of evolving to simple.
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"What technology wants" prevails because human prefs/value diffs make "collective simplicity" choice unstable
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When I say “simplicity” I am trying to mean interface simplicity, not lifestyle simplicity. I don’t know if that helps
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that helps, am on board with, re my manufactured normalcy concept. We project complex--> simple via metaphor
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