ARC 597 | BLOW-UP Scale, Spectacle, and Spontaneity in Architecture

The then soon to spread ubiquitous nature of computing is described in Mark Weiser’s 1991 text – ‘The computer for the 21st Century’. Technologies widespread tend to become volatile as they become an indispensable part of our lives. The computers have inherited themselves in our living environmental settings and thus serve us a smooth life. The paper being far-sighted talks about mobile computing like tabs and pads as a role model to replace the current nature of work and furthermore elaborates on future trends of computing. The article is very old and amazes me to the matter of fact as to how much the computers have dramatically changed over the years. The article also crafts a explanation as how we shouldn’t become slaves of computers and instead should their in-charge and use them as tools which make our lives stress-free.

In the writing ‘The Electronic as Post Optimal Object, the text explores development of potential of electronic products keeping aside the context of consumerism. The article analyses the object being a piece of art or the object being electronic by signifying few points like the designs becoming illustrative descriptions. The electronic art thus becomes technologically driven and loses the aesthetic expression. The article rightly stresses on the conception of electronic as post optimal object by pointing out that these objects should be given a poetic dimension as then they would integrate aesthetic experience with everyday life.