Cathedrals, Pyramids, iPhones: Toward a Tentative Theory of Innovation (2014)

Carr’s point of departure included Peter Thiel’s complaint about the stagnation of technological innovation cited above. In Carr’s stimulating repurposing of Maslow’s hierarchy, technological innovation proceeds from technologies of survival to technologies of self-fulfillment. The end game of this consumerist reduction of technological innovation may be what Ian Bogost recently called “future ennui.”

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