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The Future Is Here
Now What?
Looking back on previous decades of conceptual design, I can confidently say that “the future is here” in terms of technological advances that were recently just idealized visions. Embedded electronics, cloud robotics, machine learning, and deep learning are just part of the palette available to us as product creators, but the true challenge is knowing how to use these well, and it will take a new generation of sophisticated, socially focused designers to weave that technology into the world we want for ourselves and future generations.
While the impetus for bringing a new product into the world may come from a business entity that’s seemingly removed from the design process, every important aspect of the ...
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