{"id":4585,"date":"2010-06-10T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:59:21","slug":"gisbon-quote-about-the-new-quotidian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2010\/06\/10\/gisbon-quote-about-the-new-quotidian\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibson And The New *Quotidian. A Quote."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageblock\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2902205268\/\" title=\"27092008_103620 by JulianBleecker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3048\/2902205268_1935e0e54a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"27092008_103620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"comment\">\nPaper map next to its alternative.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>From William Gibson&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.williamgibsonbooks.com\/2010\/05\/31\/book-expo-american-luncheon-talk\/\">Book Expo American luncheon talk<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;..the future, be it capital-T Tomorrow or just tomorrow, Friday, just means more stuff, however peculiar and unexpected. A new quotidian. Somebody\u2019s future, somebody else\u2019s past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Something that may have once been routine will transform into a curiosity and then to old-fashioned, quaint, peculiar, ancient, confusing, a lost art, alien, &amp;c. On the other hand, today&#8217;s fascinating, spectacular will go the way of the normal, routine, everyday, banal, quotidian, boring, unspectacular, old-fashioned, a relic, collectible, museum quality, a prop to tell a story about history and how things once were, to an unknown artifact to be puzzled over in order to understand a bygone era. This perspective of seeing something as even so banal as to be boring is useful, I think, in the design process. A slight shift of perspective that adds temporality to the work one does, puts it on a timeline that is more than the rush-rush of go-to-market working schedules. At the end of it all \u2014\u00a0it&#8217;s either trash or on a pile of other crap in a flea market in Ankara or a vintage shop in Austin or something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do I blog this?<\/strong> A nice juxtoposition that I find useful to consider. When designing things that are meant to be the new, great object, or idea \u2014\u00a0think of it also, or maybe to start, as the new normal, everyday, perhaps even boring or discarded thing. Why, I am not sure, but I think it helps to round out the considerations, and to look at something fascinating as also something boring, or quaint or even illegible \u2014\u00a0as if a kid today were to look at a rotary wall phone or paper map.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Update: Nicolas has his own related remarks on Gibson&#8217;s talk at his <a href=\"http:\/\/liftlab.com\/think\/nova\/2010\/06\/08\/beyond-future-fatigue\">Liftlabs blog<\/a>.]<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper map next to its alternative. 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