Tanuj

Mercury re-imagines the operating system as a fluid experience driven by human intent.

These moments of feel aren’t reserved for big moments. In fact, they’re most important for routine actions you perform over and over again. [...] In reality, it’s the mundane, everyday interactions that need our attention most.

The irony here is that to be technological is to be profoundly human. Humanity controls its fate by using tools and materials to survive and to self-realize. The human species developed by gradually accumulating complex, adaptive technologies passed on through cultural transmission, giving us essential tools. Not only does human life and survival... See more

With so much of our socializing, organizing, and life administration routed through screens and networks, we face the contradictory risks of things disappearing or things staying findable forever. Nothing on our computers stays the same for very long. Software updates, websites disappear, and newspapers edit their copy and hope to get away with it.... See more

Understandability is a form of beauty, virtual does not mean immaterial and doing things with less is not a return to the past.

Precisely because a technology is a reusable, low-resistance path, when a piece of technology catches on widely, it tends to exponentially scale the type of behavior that it makes easier. When TVs exploded in popularity in America, it exponentially scaled the behavior of zoning out in front of a screen, hypnotized by constant visual stimulation.... See more