“In a digital age in which everything is available everywhere all the time, where every experience can be delivered electronically and every technology of communication has been puréed into the same universal flow of infinitely reproducible 0s and 1s, the hottest growth is in the market for things: finite, imperfect, irreducibly physical. Rather like human beings,” suggests Andrew Coyne, in an article for Canada’s National Post. Coyne, like a number of journalists, authors and academics, is fascinated with a counter-intuitive, counter-revolution taking place in the world of technology. It seems practicality and performance is taking a back seat to feel and experience, reinvigorating technologies that seem destined for obsolescence. Amidst their discussion on vinyl records and paper books, some interesting questions arise for the emerging world of smart technology. “New technologies, it turns out, do not always replace the old. They can sometimes co-exist, as the limitations of the old technology are rediscovered as its […]