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What’s Next For Technology And Design? A Lot Less Thinking About Technology For Technology’s Sake, And A Lot More Thinking About Design. Art Humanizes Technology And Makes It Understandable. Design Is Needed To Make Sense Of Information Overload. It Is Why Art And Design Will Rise In Importance During This Century As We Try To Make Sense Of All The Possibilities That Digital Technology Now Affords.

I Like Stuff Designed By Dead People. The Old Designers. They Always Got It Right Because They Didn't Have To Grow Up With Computers. All Of The People That Made The Spoon And The Dishes And The Vacuum Cleaner Didn't Have Microprocessors And Stuff. You Could Do A Good Design Back Then.

A Book Is A Human-powered Film Projector (complete With Feature Film) That Advances At A Speed Fully Customized To The Viewer's Mood Or Fancy. This Rare Harmony Between Object And User Arises From The Minimal Skills Required To Manipulate A Bound Sequence Of Pages. Each Piece Of Paper Embodies A Corresponding Instant Of Time Which Remains Frozen Until Liberated By The Act Of Turning A Page.

There Is A Construct In Computer Programming Called 'the Infinite Loop' Which Enables A Computer To Do What No Other Physical Machine Can Do - To Operate In Perpetuity Without Tiring. In The Same Way It Doesn't Know Exhaustion, It Doesn't Know When It's Wrong And It Can Keep Doing The Wrong Thing Over And Over Without Tiring.

One Of The Challenges To Our Nation Today Is Overcoming The Notion That Art Is Kind Of A Nice-to-have, When In Reality Art Is A Need-to-have.