Planned Renascence…
I believe we all heard the term — Planned obsolescence…For those who don’t know what is it then -
So the idea is that the lifetime of an product can be planned. And when it’s planned by design there is nothing much to do. Not that you would like everything to be resurrected but, some of those you might, so it also adds up to the consumer culture. As for me it holds more of a bad thing than a good one… but what I discovered for myself …
That the technology is now integrated pretty much in everything we can think of, so at any step in your day there is a device close to you, either you’re running, working, chilling or cooking…and most of it can be integrated in the IoT family…
Meaning that it is all smart and can do voice commands and shit. For me this was revelation, I though that at some point there will be nothing much for me to do in a physical way. There is smart equipment that you can attach to your body so it can CONTRACT MUSCLES FOR YOU, how fucking crazy is this… there is a coffee machine that is smarted than you were in the 3rd grade, can make you coffee according to your routine and the most important they will be able to learn it, there is a smart watch that knows everything about you as much as you smartphone and so on…
BUT, what else I discovered is that I have a hidden love for doing things myself, making coffee using the low tech Mokka or repairing the door handle, so it got me thinking, it is not that bad that we have all this high tech, it’s bad when we are using it for all the task, not only the trivial ones or the ones that extend our capabilities… So I believe it is the time we resurrect the old tech, just for the sake of satisfaction of using it, like the Mokka, or an old lawn mower, that works only by moving it. Or an old Jeep XJ or anything that brings you joy by using it. And leave the boring part to the high tech mumbo jumbo, you wake up in the morning and do you coffee yourself, then you can open you garage by pulling some metal chains if you wish so. Just think of it, if you leave the hard and boring to the capabilities of the high tech, than you have the freedom to choose what you are actually enjoying to do. For those who remember the episode of Rick and Morty, where Rick had a sane and conscious robot just to put the butter on his bread, well my idea is exactly backwards. (upset_robot)
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