""Open Twitter, LinkedIn, or any blog platform. Scroll for five minutes. You'll see the same articles rewritten 50 different ways. Headlines like: morning routines of successful people, is coding dead in the age of AI, top programming languages to learn this year, how to stop procrastinating once and for all, ChatGPT will revolutionize everything, side hustles you can start today.""
""Technosolutionism is a narrow perspective on progress and innovation, deeply rooted in the logic of capitalism: an innovation is pursued if it is the path of least resistance toward the largest financial return.""
""But what if the limitations in the mind of a designer are their own and not the mediums? What if they don't get how it works? What if they do but can't make it work?""
Designers in the 1930s adopted plywood bending during the Second Industrial Revolution, enabling previously impossible forms and new creative possibilities. Connections among Estonia, AI gardens, and material practices reveal paths to greater designer productivity through place-based techniques and generative tools. Original creative work is increasingly threatened by repetitive platform-driven content that replicates the same headlines and formats. Prototype limitations often arise from designers' mental models rather than medium constraints, raising questions about understanding and execution. Technosolutionism narrows innovation by prioritizing the fastest path to financial return, and alternative approaches remain available.
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