After reading Bret Victor’s rant on how technology is growing and how the future is illustrated as filled with fingers swiping on a screen, a phenomenon he calls “picture under glass”, I found myself thinking of how the current events could look like for the future.
Yes there is the image of a developed future with advanced technologies everywhere. But seeing how the internet and its trend culture affects the development people’s preferences, maybe the future isn’t set to just be about advanced technologies.
Take the digicam trend right now: people are going back to using digicams over their iPhone cameras to get that aesthetic retro look to their photos. Then there is also that Y2K fashion trend. Again and again, people are finding things from ‘back then’ interesting and bringing it back to its peak.
I personally like this part about society; finding the joy in things that other people used to enjoy in another era of time, that may have been long forgotten.