pointerQuando la tecnologia smette di essere speciale

Tornando a un vecchio discorso, ovvero alla morte delle specifiche tecniche (che passano su un piano secondario), Nick Bilton sul NY Times ha scritto del ruolo sempre più ingombrante che il design inizia a coprire nel momento in cui una tecnologia arriva a uno stadio abbastanza maturo:

“We’re on the tail end of technology being special,” says John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design. “The automobile was a weird alien technology when it first debuted, then, after a while, it evolved and designers stepped in to add value to it”.

Walk into most car showrooms in America and sales clerks might spend more time explaining the shape of the heated seat than the engine that moves the car along. Several decades ago, he might have been heralding pistons and horsepower.