{"id":9752,"date":"2016-10-16T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:56:37","slug":"documenting-the-state-of-contemporary-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2016\/10\/16\/documenting-the-state-of-contemporary-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenting the State of Contemporary Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or how the observations of mundane technological glitches and frictions offer a complementary form of inspiration to the multitude of glamorous utopian design\u00a0visions.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the Near Future Laboratory<\/a> we are fascinated by the co-evolution of humans and technology, how technology is changing and how it is changing people. Practically, this means we constantly observe this interplay, and we love to question, design and create the future of this relationship. We are persistent stalkers of the partially broken, the tinkered, the seamful, the annoying, the absurd and any other awkward ways technologies surfaces in our modern lives. These observations offer us a complementary form of inspiration to the multitude of glamorous utopian design visions.<\/p>\n

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TV Control instruction for my fictional AirBnb guests. Courtesy of Nick Foster<\/a>. #TUXSAX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a recent project in the form of the fanzine TUXSAX: the user experience will be as shitty as expected<\/a> we highlight that perfection, prediction and seamlessness are biased goals for the design of future technologies. They describe an ultimately unattainable and arguably undesirable world.<\/p>\n