• Lied with no intention of delivering • Intended to deliver, then overwhelmed, fled • Personal tragedies/war/lied to by others • Delivered product barely functional POS • Took so long to deliver that better products now exist • Underestimated:
• shipping • supply chain • costs • ease of manufacturing
• Product not seamless enough for real life • Product nice in theory, meh in practice
What can go wrong: Personal issues
• Lied with no intention of delivering • Intended to deliver, then overwhelmed, fled • Personal tragedies/war/lied to by others • Delivered product barely functional POS • Took so long to deliver that better products now exist • Underestimated:
• shipping • supply chain • costs • ease of manufacturing
• Product not seamless enough for real life • Product nice in theory, meh in practice
What can go wrong:
Manufacturing and planning issues
• Lied with no intention of delivering • Intended to deliver, then overwhelmed, fled • Personal tragedies/war/lied to by others • Delivered product barely functional POS • Took so long to deliver that better products now exist • Underestimated:
• shipping • supply chain • costs • ease of manufacturing
• Product not seamless enough for real life • Product nice in theory, meh in practice
What can go wrong:
Landfill design
Outputs
displaysLEDslasers
speakersvibration
motorsmuscle wire
relaysheatcolor
printingthe web
Light Sound Movement Other
Wait for magic threshold of better
___________ are now so ______ that you can ________!
projectors motors sensors
ICs cameras
voice APIs WIFI chips processors
small cheap
efficient fast
sturdy powerful accurate
stable
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Find new applications for old parts
Cryoscope haptic weathervane by Robb Godshaw
Click & whistle mobile voice control
GravityLight
Info displays not based on light
#Flock by Berg
Ugle by Voy
More human, tactile, polite
Fewer ready-made engineering and code shortcuts available
Cryoscope haptic weathervane by Robb Godshaw
Click & whistle mobile voice control
GravityLight
–Bret Victor, “The Humane Representation of Thought"
“Humane is never a default…If you just ride the current wave of technology and let technology
lead wherever it leads you, it’s going to lead you to a tighter and tighter cage.”