“As designers, we need to shift from designing applications to designing implications by creating imaginary products and services that situate these new developments within everyday material culture.” Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. #hopeinthedark#rebeccasolnit
The problem is not whether man can survive regimentation and standardization. The problem, as we shall see, is whether he can survive freedoms. #futureshock#alvintoffler
Reaching deep into our personal lives, the enormous changes ahead will transform traditional family structures and sexual attitudes. They will smash conventional relationships between old and young… #futureshock#alvintoffler
…They will overthrow our values with respect to money and success. They will alter work, play and education beyond recognition. And they will do all this in a context of spectacular, elegant, yet frightening scientific advance. #futureshock#alvintoffler
One needs imagination to confront a revolution. Fit revolution does not move in straight lines alone. It jerks, twists and backtracks. It arrives in form of quantum jumps and dialectical reversals. #futureshock#alvintoffler
Thus the mental model must be seen not as a static library of images, but as a living entity, tightly charged with energy and activity. #futureshock#alvintoffler
At any given instant, innumerable images are decaying, dripping into the black immensity of the forgotten. Others are entering the system, being processed and filed. #futureshock#alvintoffler