Comments on: How steampunk can humanize gadgets http://boingboing.net/2012/12/18/how-steampunk-can-humanize-gad.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 03:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Heevee Lister http://boingboing.net/2012/12/18/how-steampunk-can-humanize-gad.html#comment-1611026 Heevee Lister Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=201152#comment-1611026 "If you sleep with your smartphone next to your bed you want it to know who you are when you wake up in the morning."  That's one thing wrong with smartphones.  They know entirely too much about us. “If you sleep with your smartphone next to your bed you want it to know who you are when you wake up in the morning.”  That’s one thing wrong with smartphones.  They know entirely too much about us.

]]> By: ZikZak http://boingboing.net/2012/12/18/how-steampunk-can-humanize-gad.html#comment-1610982 ZikZak Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=201152#comment-1610982 Are your customers getting bored with your pointless consumer goods?  Is your promise that more products will make their lives meaningful wearing thin?  Worried that people may stop buying entirely? You need Steampunk!  Don't worry, it's not the radical anti-establishment DIY movement you may have heard about, it's the hottest new trend in the consumer gadget market! See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_%28politics%29" rel="nofollow">Recuperation</a> Are your customers getting bored with your pointless consumer goods?  Is your promise that more products will make their lives meaningful wearing thin?  Worried that people may stop buying entirely?

You need Steampunk!  Don’t worry, it’s not the radical anti-establishment DIY movement you may have heard about, it’s the hottest new trend in the consumer gadget market!

See also: Recuperation

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