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What does it say about our culture when we stop taking risks on things that aren’t guaranteed successes? That the Apple giving up on a project because it would take away from something else giving up on their AR project because it would take away from the iPhone or the collapse of the entertainment industry that Ted Goya talks about and how everything is sequels and purchased intellectual property that already has ardent fan bases.

Researchers are important for creating collective knowledge, but artists are important creating collective culture. Compelling storytelling with its corresponding emotional resonance are what underpin this culture.

I’m becoming increasingly skeptical of technology company products’ planned obsolescence. Convincing us we need a new tool that will solve a problem we didn’t realize we had or one that was created by our use of the previous iteration. Locking people into some proprietary closed off system.

“In becoming less obtrusive, our devices also become more complicated.” (Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft)