HANDS ON By Bruce Sterling
Designer Futurescape
The tectonic moment — for me, anyway — came when Anab Jain, a young interaction designer educated in India, Vienna, and London, stood up in front of seven hundred Web 2.0 zealots in Geneva and declared that she works in “design futurescaping.”
I know that sounds plenty weird, but since this is MAKE, I can assume that I’m addressing contemporary grown-ups here. If you’ve got the jazzy MAKE Digital Edition rather than the inky real-world paper mag, just click the ol’ pull-down menu, Google “Anab Jain,” and in five minutes you can discover that this inventive personage, who is about as global as a dandelion seed, really does work in “designer futurescapes.” I would challenge you to find any better ...
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