inventori.tv

inventori.tv
Up until now, I have presented my thesis project “inventori” as an earnest attempt and creating a useful tool. I thought of it as a coping mechanism for those of us that are too sentimental about our things to give them away. I’ve been planning to make a website that can be a database for ...

Project Proposal

Thesis argument: Objects are symbols of human history. This history can get lost as they physically erode, rust, break, and disappear. Additionally, the nature of objects is changing: physical objects are being translated into immaterial software that is housed in high-tech hardware. Immaterial software and high-tech objects cannot be vessels of sentiment/nostalgia in the same ...

The Inmates are Running the Asylum

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper –          –          – Notes: Part 1 Ch. 1 computers are dumb, and they turn otherwise easy-to-use objects into dumb objects that malfunction “it is far ...