John Maeda
I haven’t felt compelled to post very much in a while.
Is it possible to reach a point where you are too analytical to appreciate? To be surprised? To even enjoy the world around you?
I can’t buy a watch because I can’t find a watch I like. It’s not that there aren’t “good watches” out there it’s that literally, the watch I want doesn’t exist as far as I can tell. (oh how I have looked.)
The nice thing is, that if the thing you need doesn’t exist, you are not trapped as a consumer- well some are- but I am a maker of things. Maeda was a nice reminder of what that means.
It was nice to find John Maeda toying with the world. Thanks John Maeda. For being downright playful with that stodgy, clumsy, learning curved thing called technology that defines so much of what we need and how we come to it.
Maeda: “… I actually don’t like technology very much… but it’s not about how to make the world more technological…it’s about how to make it more humane…” Right. Technology can help that happen.
Now I’m back on track.
