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What you find troubling I view as inevitable. Tastes define what we create and how we create it. Tastes inform what we choose to compromise and what we protect
by danilocampos 14y ago
What you find troubling I view as inevitable.
Tastes define what we create and how we create it. Tastes inform what we choose to compromise and what we protect in the process of making things.
So as we venture into new worlds – Surface vs. iPad vs. Android vs. Kindle may superficially be consumer products but more crucially they are platforms for building the future for a mass audience – it's natural that we're going to have to spill a lot of thought figuring out what's most important to us.
Will there be disagreement? Yeah. Will it be perfectly civilized? Almost certainly not, given rarity of good manners, social skills and healthy conflict management.
But that's life with the apes.
- jlgreco 14y agoTroubling and inevitable should not be viewed as mutually exclusive.
- mladenkovacevic 14y agoI think you could argue that taste often gets in the way of creating things. Those pre-defined censures you impose on your creation before it's even an embryo: "It'll be like this and sort of like this, but definitely not like this because that is so unsophisticated." It's your ego trying to deal with insecurity and fear of failure before your brain's logical centre has even had a chance to analyse the idea. Sorry I'm just babbling, I have no real-world examples of this but it's just a thought and it might or might not be true.
- prodigal_erik 14y ago> Surface vs. iPad vs. Android vs. Kindle may superficially be consumer products but more crucially they are platforms for building the future for a mass audience What I find crucial is that the way this competition plays out will determine who is permitted to create, and what. Open tools encourage clever human beings, while crippled appliances give consumers learned helplessness. This is far more important than how shiny or expensive our gadgets are.