Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology

It’s important for technologists to understand this desire to have superhuman powers and extraordinary abilities,

We interact with screens 90 percent of our waking hours. The result is a colder, more isolated, less humane world. Perhaps it is more efficient, but we are less happy.

An augmented mirror, however, with interactive capability, could enable you to see an identity that you are actualizing. A social capacity could let you share this self with others.

each of the main characters is linked to a unique melodic phrase, each played by a different, easily recognizable instrument. A clarinet signifies the cat, the wolf is a French horn, the bassoon announces the grandfather.

an I/O Bulb (I/O for input/output) that can project information on anything: paper, walls, tables, ceilings, and so on, creating what we refer to as digital “

idea was based on glanceability, or what cognitive scientists call preattentive processing.

the hierarchy of information processing: 1. Is the data worthy of attention now? 2. What is the information in summary? What’s the headline? 3. What’s the trend of the information? Is it getting better or worse? 4. Finally, what are the details of the data itself?

the Heisenberg principle (which states, roughly, that an act of observation produces changes in what is observed),

to be minimalist markers and become workday assistants?