Design Tomorrow

Every vision of the future is a better index of the present from which it came than whatever time it imagines. So today, let's look back at some of the things we believed would serve as landmarks of the future. Not to point out how quaint they are or to dunk on the blind spots of the past. But so that we can better understand why — no matter what shiny new objects we make and use — we never quite feel like we've gotten to the future. Why it's so difficult to recognize how far we've come...

Show Notes

• The Dymaxion House
• Le Corbusier
• Lewis Mumford
• Lewis Mumford on The City
• Robert Heinlein did get a futurist house eventually. He just had to design it himself.
• The Entire History of You

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Spirals, by r beny
• Fall Creek Unit, by r beny
• Live 182801, by r beny
• Pines, by r beny
• Crystals & Graves, by r beny
• Volca Keys Arp Jam, by r beny

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

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Does advertising still make sense in our world today? How does a form of media always known as an associated form — as something that sips from the attention river flowing to and from other things — function when the complexity of those waterways has exponentially increased?

Links

• Who is Using Twitter in the US?
• 28 Twitter Statistics All Marketers Need to Know in 2019
• The Eye-Opening Influence of Instagram on Buying
• 10 Instagram Stats Every Marketer Should Know in 2019
• The Cost of Paying Attention, by Matthew Crawford
• Jared Lanier on micropayments
• The Roosevelts, by Ken Burns

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Greyleaf Willow, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Rainy Day Drone, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Fall Creek Unit, by r beny
• Loam, by Podington Bear
• EE2 Ambient, by r beny
• Wilt, by r beny
• E2 Ambient Electro Jam, by r beny

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As long as we've been self-aware, we've desired companionship. And yet, we are not enough for one another; we hunger for something more - something that folklore, imaginary friends, and now technology have attempted to satisfy. Today, we stand at a crossroads beyond which is a future full of artificial lives. What kinds of minds will we create for ourselves? And what kind of future will those minds make for us?

Links

• "The Measure of a Man," Season 2, Episode 9 of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Her
• "Be Right Back," Season 2, Episode 1 of Black Mirror
• THX 1138
• The confession scene in THX 1138
• "When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence."
• The tablets on Star Trek: The Next Generation were called PADDs
• ...and there were a lot of them

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• MD by r beny
• But Enough About Me, Bill Paxton, by Chris Zabriskie
• Cities Sleep Like Seeds by r beny
• The Sea's Sullen Green by r beny
• Empty Grinds by r beny
• Glisten by r beny

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

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Too often we think of the word "design" as a shorthand for an ecosystem of mostly visual phenomena. But words play an enormous, though often unseen, role in the creation of everything. Today, I want to tell you a story about how my life was changed by a few words said quickly, but words which I will never forget...

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Envira, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Our Digital Compass, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Svela Tal, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Tolls Folly, by Blue Dot Sessions

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

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We live in a time of illusions. Simulations that reflect back upon us more than just the passage of time, but something important about who we are. Something unique is going on right now — with the tools and technology we have — that is giving us the ability to stop, stretch, bend, and replay time. In this episode, we'll explore what that offers us, we for whom at some point, time will end...

Links

• "Danielle"
• Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits by Anthony Cerniello
• "Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 12.5 years"
• Homer Simpson Time Lapse
• "Nancy Grows Up"
• "41 Years in 60 Seconds"
• "The Arrow of Time"
• Star Trek TNG - Moriarty pleads his case for existence
• Stranger than Fiction - Harold confronts the necessity of his death
• Memento Mori

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Danielle, by Mark Reveley
• Together We Are Stronger, by Komiku
• I Need to Start Writing Things Down, by Chris Zabriskie
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains, by Chris Zabriskie
• I Used to Need the Violence, by Chris Zabriskie
• Out of the Skies Under the Earth, by Chris Zabriskie

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC.

You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.