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Six SMART AND PRETTY
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The aesthetic imperative is here to stay.
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Every start-up, product, or public space calls for an aesthetic touch.
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demands new forms of attention and offers new sources of pleasure
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Aesthetic proliferation

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more choices, opportunities,
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We expect look and feel to express,
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establish, the identity

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Function alone does not suffice.
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Hubbard Street Grill closed
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David Schy blamed competition
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“he didn’t spiff up the loft warehouse space that housed
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He didn’t even buy new tables
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Schy gave Hubbard Street Grill no aesthetic identity.
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expanding the menu but did nothing to improve the restaurant’s atmosphere.
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real business of dining was the food.
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$3 million [decorating budget] with lousy food
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the quality of restaurant food has improved greatly, making look and feel the deciding factors
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between lousy food and good food but between good food in an appealing environment and better food in an unappealing one.
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“The décor stinks, it’s too loud, you can’t hear. But the food is good.”
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education writer Joanne Jacobs complains that schools teach children PowerPoint rather than critical writing
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“Dumb, But Pretty.”
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Solving the problem wasn’t enough.
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a good-looking cover matters only on the margin.
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not “dumb but pretty” but “smart and pretty.”
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no inherently worse than rewarding history students for well-wrought prose,

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NON È UNA NOVITÀ

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what schools are really giving up to spend more time on aesthetics.
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putting together “creative” projects like skits and posters.
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plenty of marginally productive hours—some of them devoted to repetitive or insignificant academic instruction—that could be more valuably used to develop aesthetic skills.
Note:LO SPAZIO X IL BELLO PUÒ ESSERE EFFICIENTE

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The “smart and pretty” standard reflects what’s happening in the nonacademic world,
Note:DIFFERENZA AL MARGINE

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they have to choose between brains and beauty,
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avoid such false dichotomies.

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trade-offs we make aren’t all-or-nothing choices. They’re decisions on the margin:
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Piro’s humanities class offers a better model for using aesthetics
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movies combine aesthetics with communication,
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serious thought about how most effectively to convey ideas
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understanding of utopian literature and the rhetorical skill
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Jacobs is voicing the frustrations of the intellectually adept student confronted with academic demands she can’t easily meet.
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What does graphic design have to do with math?
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My project was stupid because my aesthetic skills weren’t good enough to support substantive thoughts.
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teacher viewed artwork as intuitive and innate, the opposite of intellect or skill.
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aesthetics enhances communication.
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good schools will cultivate aesthetic skills,
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How well students deploy these skills for rhetorical effect is still a test of intellectual mastery,
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Verbal aptitude faces competition from new media,
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An insightful student who writes poorly may be able to produce an effective multimedia presentation,
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they nonetheless help us to perceive and understand the world.
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If a science teacher accepts a diagram that contradicts Galileo, the teacher’s ignorance, not the graphic design, is to blame.
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recorded his lunar observations in watercolors.
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drawing and painting were both common scientific tools

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PRIMA DEL ROMANTICISMO

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David Hume
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     Luxury
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great refinement in the gratification of the senses;
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These indulgences are only vices when they are pursued at the expense of some virtue,
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Aesthetics is prerational or nonrational, not irrational or antirational.
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Behind this aesthetic trend, as behind so many others, are falling prices.
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Consider women’s shoes.
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Embroidered and beaded shoes
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in the late 1990s, automation drove down the cost of these adornments
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Did fancy shoemakers suddenly garner enormous profits?
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“profit margins are no greater on these shoes than on unadorned Mary Janes.”

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increasing total sales.
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shoe industry productivity hasn’t increased much, if at all. But the standard of living
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consumers can get more aesthetic value for the same price.
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more pleasing without becoming more profitable.
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Much of the value created through aesthetics doesn’t make it into the economic data
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Intangible goods like aesthetics are inherently difficult to measure
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value isn’t reflected in higher prices.
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improvements like computer memory or car features,
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Adjusted for inflation, the price of a movie ticket in 2001 was lower than in 1990 and much lower than its peak in 1971, yet sound systems and special effects are substantially improved.
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The benefits of rising technical standards go to ticket buyers,
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quality goes up while price stays the same,

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FENOMENO

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quality improvements without price increases usually don’t affect economic statistics,
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if aesthetic quality is accelerating,
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intangible advantages such as variety,
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quality increases everywhere
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“productivity paradox”
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overestimating inflation and understating growth.
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fighting inflation that doesn’t exist
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spending programs, by contrast, tend to treat the data as perfect, automatically ratcheting up
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data’s psychological effect. Incomes look stagnant even while living standards are rising.
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accustomed to higher aesthetic standards,
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we believe pessimists who say progress has effectively ended.
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The more we invest in aesthetics,
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one reason such common communications tools seem frivolous to old-fashioned managers.
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This is true not just for places and things but for personal appearance.
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dermatologist visits, gym workouts, or hair care.

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“The emphasis now on grooming for women in public life is just so intense,”
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but they reflect what people value and what we can now achieve.
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future would have no jobs for anyone but computer programmers
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Pat Buchanan on Crossfire,
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responded Jeremy Rifkin, author of The End of Work.

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The End of Work.
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These pessimists didn’t count on the aesthetic imperative.

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MA

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we increasingly contract out our aesthetic puzzles.
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Turning once-amateur activities into professional
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Sewing and basic cabinetry were once tasks done inside the family.
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buy our clothes and tables from commercial experts

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from hairdressing to landscaping,
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aesthetic economy is in no way limited to “very elite,
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paying people to shop for you, walk your dog, clean your house, cook for you, color your hair, nails, face, toes, wax you, massage you, exercise you, tan you.
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sixteen or seventeen other people to help me
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Instead of spending precious weekends planting grass
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looking for a special outfit wishes she could hire someone with impeccable fashion sense
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All those room-makeover TV shows
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interior designers

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don’t work just for rich people.
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assumptions we’ve inherited from the romantics, who opposed art to technology and feeling to rationality;
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ornament as crime and commerce as corruption;
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Designers have long lived in fear that people will think they’re frivolous,
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Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty
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“interior design is more than decorating.” It’s “about making people feel comfortable and perform properly in their space.”
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Design provides pleasure and meaning
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making things beautiful can also make them work better.
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usability guru Donald Norman

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“Attractive things work better.
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color computer displays
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“We’re turning out too many hairdressers and cosmetologists, and not enough skilled factory workers”
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asking which they’d choose: a machine shop job with high pay and job security or hairdressing with lower pay and more risk.
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most people chose the hair salon,

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RISP

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flexibility, freedom from supervision, stimulation, creativity, and the immediate satisfaction of their customers’ pleasure.
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tattooing needle, DJ turntable
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those jobs will enjoy increasing prestige.
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Their talents can be the essential complements to the skills of others.
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How do artists, engineers, and business executives communicate
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Can we recapture the wisdom of the Renaissance,
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why can’t it deliver personal beauty at a lower cost in time and money? There should be pills for it!
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personal appearance,
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We are not just visual, tactile creatures; we are visible, touchable
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Our bodies are us.

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Moss had experimental surgery to change her looks.
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“Just cut away everything that’s not me.”
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Advancing biomedical technologies give us control over biological conditions
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Moss’s old face was unusual and ugly, the unwanted product of genetic bad luck,
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We unnecessarily torture the language when we insist that every undesirable biological condition must be called a disease
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more responsibility we face not only for who we are and how we act but for how we appear.
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But suppose cosmetic surgery, or a substitute technology, really were “hassle-free”
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even people who care only a little about their looks will do it,
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Good teeth and clear skin
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those falling costs keep look and feel from crowding out all other values. We may be able to have more of everything,
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The age of look and feel is a product of those shifting relative costs.
Note:CHE SIA CHIARO

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Just as athletes and intellectuals lead unbalanced lives by the standards of those with other priorities, so some people find enormous meaning and pleasure in personal beauty.
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make a disturbing cultural model.
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they seem boring and superficial.

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They’re just a subculture, a specialized niche
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Everybody will use them, and we’ll all wind up looking the same.

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PREOCCUP SULLA TECNOBELLEZZA

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If changing eye color becomes too easy, people will alter what nature decrees.
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weird and homogeneous.
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alter a person’s genetic makeup before birth,
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cosmetic gene therapy will “spread like wildfire”
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we will alter our outer selves to match our inner selves.
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it’s foolish to dread a uniformly blue-eyed world.
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Plenitude and self-expression are as central to the age of look
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We want to look good but also to look special,
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against a single aesthetic standard—whether

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When aesthetic choices are left to individuals, we wind up with variety,
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Every cultural and economic change produces the same fundamental fear: that in the unknown future, there will be no place for people like me,
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“The Beautiful and the Sublime,” Bruce Sterling
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rational thought is no longer considered a particularly human activity.
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Art, emotion, and grand gestures are in.
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indefinable elements that separate humanity from the shallow logic
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The aesthetic imperative requires integrating art and science, emotion and cognition,
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The age of look and feel runs on specialization.
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The innovations that today seem exciting, disturbing, or both will eventually become the backgrounds of our lives.
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Without a life to be lived, look and feel have no purpose or meaning.
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They don’t matter apart from our subjective experience

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     What really endures are artifacts, effigies, things that speak about a time, place or civilization.
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Objects outlive us,

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We have the pots, jewelry, and wall decorations of our ancient ancestors, and a few of their stories.
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“Every object in one’s life,”
UNA VITA