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The Gods Must be Crazy
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The Gods Must be Crazy

A 1980 film about a Coke bottle dropped over the desert might be the best metaphor for what’s happened to design.  
Rose-Colored Glasses
Rose-Colored Glasses

Why are predictions on the Future of Architecture (capital F, capital A) always so wrong?
Handy Containers
Handy Containers

While we may have rejected the box as the standard architectural form, we’re more dedicated to it than ever.
Here but Not Here
Here but Not Here

Architecture has yet to acknowledge the impact of social media on our experience of physical space.
Rekindling the Book
Rekindling the Book

Can Amazon’s new digital reader do for print what the iPod did for music?
Within the Product of No Product
Within the Product of No Product

­What are the implications for industrial designers if the strongest consumer impulse becomes not buying?
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