I love this article from Weigel and don't see a contradiction between this and my approach. Not even with my earlier "photoshop for the rest of us" post from today. But rather a tension that should be explored and mined. Tools, media, formats, technologies etc, all bring with them their own biases; it's up to us to master, navigate, and subvert. Remain the designers. It's an uphill battle, but it's worth it. It's not either/or. The tools can (and will) drive conformity, the tools can usher a new age for creativity (creative strategy included). The same thing happened with Photoshop. Like Neil Postman says at the end of “Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business” (1985): “Nature doesn't speak, we talk about it, in any way we can. We see only our discourse about the world, this is our means of communication, the means are our metaphors and our metaphors create the content of our culture.” Plato lamented that written language would kill memory and thought. The church baulked at the printing press making texts widely available. But I can see both the danger and the beauty even in selfies. I don't miss the way it used to be... when it was done properly, and a man would come to your house and paint a portrait of you with your stuff. We make our tools and our tools make us, and that new us makes new tools and so on.
We should ask “and what happens next?!” and seek to surprise ourselves again. We should take the mental shopping trolley to the top of the hill, set it alight (if only for dramatic effect)… and then let go. New post.
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1y"Earlier that day": https://www.linkedin.com/posts/baruchin_ai-design-democratisation-activity-7043612148299624449-4-zF