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

Suppose, for example, that you had an enchanted wall in your kitchen that could display, through lines of colored light, the trends and patterns in your loved ones’ moods?

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.

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

The screen is a blunt instrument.

Enchanted objects: ordinary things made extraordinary.

Mirrors influence our sense of self—and self-consciousness.

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.

GLANCEABLE INFORMATION LEADS TO BEHAVIOR CHANGE

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