There is a larger point here about technology in general. The things that are supposed to make us happier are not, in fact, making us happier. To the technologi

There is a larger point here about technology in general. The things that are supposed to make us happier are not, in fact, making us happier. To the technologist, more pixels and faster frame rates are an undisputed good. As Kevin Wines from THX tells me, “When film was the only medium for cinema, using lower frame rates was based on economics. With film, directors and producers would have had to use more film, making it cost prohibitive to use high frame rates, but now that we use digital data, there’s no fiscal reason not to use high frame rates.” No reason, of course, other than that the impact on viewers may be different than what the technologists were expecting. To people in the user-centered practices, every product, and every feature of every product, is a proposition, a question we ask users. Like the ophthalmologist giving an eye exam, “better now, or now?” http://onforb.es/VPE5u2 http://onforb.es/VPE5u2