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Summary: important work for more than just designers...
...or perhaps it's just that "design" is an extremely broad category. Sterling presents a futurity that is at once realistic and utopian, frightening and hopeful.
This book would be useful for not just anyone designing anything, but anyone concerned with the future, how to achieve real sustainability, or how all that geeky stuff (you occasionally read about in the Wired you pick up at the airport) will really effect you.
I agree with another reviewer that the actual print design of the book is a hindrance, which is ironic; my distaste for it was only made worse by having already heard Sterling brag on it during a talk. But even with this beef, I have to give it a full five stars based on the content alone.
Summary: SPIMES = Wired
In `Shaping Things' Sterling shifts gears from fiction writer to activist. This concise book was written to inspire designers to visualize radical scenarios connecting information technology and sustainability. Sterling suggests new connections between the virtual world and the physical world that will have you rethinking many of your assumptions about how we relate to products. If you design artifacts, machines, gizmos or products, then read this book!
SPIMES = Wired.
Post-Industrial = Tired.
Industrial = Expired.
Summary: thinking outside of the box
This slim book, readable in a few short hours is, IMO, a very thoughtfull view of the issues facing design in a post modern world, with some insightful guideposts about designing in this world. I think it is way ahead of the curve in the area, discussing issues that I never see in any amount of design magazines and books that populate the shelves of bookstores. This is not a book about the form of things - the typical fetishist approach of most books about design - but the information that is wrapped around stuff as it makes its way through its cycly of production, use and discard.
Sterling writes clearly and concisely on the future and design of informational products, something he calls SPIMES, which contain information on time, place and state.
His ideas are thought provoking. I have already recommended this book to some designer friends - I hope they pick up a copy and read it.
Highly recommended.
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