My Dad was a commercial artist. He made electrical products look as cool as book covers for pirate novels. "Real" catalogs spark the imagination. I can't say that for the lifeless still photos of online galleries all built to the same formula.
Step back and look at what much of "modern progress" looks like. Cars still don't drive themselves like the chauffeur did. I still spend lots of time loading and unloading the dishwasher (a mechanical device, not a person) and of course, scraping dried-up bits that survive the machine. And an AI that orders me clothes replaces Mommy or your butler ... I just shop at the thrift store. Mainly for the "surprise" factor.
And, I REALLY don't want the store, online or otherwise, to know too much about me, even if that means a plethora of unsuitable choices presented.
My current peeve is DuckDuckGo, which, not knowing anything about me, interprets my search terms for technical and historical information as "The most popular movie in recent times that appropriated an extremely common noun or verb" or of course, the nearest brew-pub to my geolocation.
I just plug in search terms and qualifiers (and disqualifiers) by the boatload, until the fluff lessens.
Admittedly, my favorites are catalogs from seed and plant companies, which spark dreams of a giant garden, such as my grandfather had.
So here's a proposition and a question. In the past, when jobs were incerdibly scarce, and were lost to the first wave of outsourcing (which caused a ton of xenophobia among the masses and helped elect a "very isolationist" president [0]), I wondered if FAB on a local level might give people jobs creating localized and bespoke products.
> Trump: We don’t want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18
> “We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
> “We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.
> Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.
"Real" catalogs are art. "Art?" you say?
My Dad was a commercial artist. He made electrical products look as cool as book covers for pirate novels. "Real" catalogs spark the imagination. I can't say that for the lifeless still photos of online galleries all built to the same formula.
Step back and look at what much of "modern progress" looks like. Cars still don't drive themselves like the chauffeur did. I still spend lots of time loading and unloading the dishwasher (a mechanical device, not a person) and of course, scraping dried-up bits that survive the machine. And an AI that orders me clothes replaces Mommy or your butler ... I just shop at the thrift store. Mainly for the "surprise" factor.
And, I REALLY don't want the store, online or otherwise, to know too much about me, even if that means a plethora of unsuitable choices presented.
My current peeve is DuckDuckGo, which, not knowing anything about me, interprets my search terms for technical and historical information as "The most popular movie in recent times that appropriated an extremely common noun or verb" or of course, the nearest brew-pub to my geolocation.
I just plug in search terms and qualifiers (and disqualifiers) by the boatload, until the fluff lessens.
Admittedly, my favorites are catalogs from seed and plant companies, which spark dreams of a giant garden, such as my grandfather had.
So here's a proposition and a question. In the past, when jobs were incerdibly scarce, and were lost to the first wave of outsourcing (which caused a ton of xenophobia among the masses and helped elect a "very isolationist" president [0]), I wondered if FAB on a local level might give people jobs creating localized and bespoke products.
Will AI front-end bespoke FAB fabs?
[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-...
> Trump: We don’t want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18
> “We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
> “We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.
> Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.