It'd be like, imagine right now, I'm sitting at my laptop, and I say 'oh, I've got to go...
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Karim Rashid - Designer:
We have advanced technologically so far and yet somehow, it's almost some sort of paranoia where we're afraid to really say 'we live in the third technological revolution.' I have an iPod in my pocket, I have a mobile phone, I have a laptop, but then somehow, I end up going home and sitting on wood-spindle, Wittengale-like chairs. So, in a way, you could argue that we're building all these kind-of really kitsch stage-sets that have absolutely nothing to do with the age in which we live in. [...] Karim Rashid - Designer:
It'd be like, imagine right now, I'm sitting at my laptop, and I say 'oh, I've got to go out', what am I going to do? Go out and get my horse and carriage? No, of course not
We have advanced technologically so far and yet somehow, it's almost some sort of paranoia where we're afraid to really say 'we live in the third technological revolution.' I have an iPod in my pocket, I have a mobile phone, I have a laptop, but then somehow, I end up going home and sitting on wood-spindle, Wittengale-like chairs. So, in a way, you could argue that we're building all these kind-of really kitsch stage-sets that have absolutely nothing to do with the age in which we live in. [...] Karim Rashid - Designer:
It'd be like, imagine right now, I'm sitting at my laptop, and I say 'oh, I've got to go out', what am I going to do? Go out and get my horse and carriage? No, of course not
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We have advanced technologically so far and yet somehow it's some sort or paranoia where we're
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afraid to really say We live in the third technological revolution I have an iPod in my pocket
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I have a mobile phone I have a laptop but then somehow I end up going home and sitting on
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wood spindled Wittengale chairs So in a way you could argue that we're building all these
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really kitsch stage sets that have absolutely nothing to do with the age in which we live
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It's strangel I find it extremely perverse in a way I mean imagine right now l'm sitting here on my
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Iaptop and l've got to go out What am I going to do get in my horse and carriage Of course not
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Movie Summary
A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
