Lecture Synopsis:
TBD Catalog — the near future’s normal, ordinary everyday product catalog. It’s a glimpse at your future as hinted at through 166 products, advertisements and classifieds. It’s your future, only not the future you may have imagined. It is, though, the quite likely future if the titans of Silicon Valley and their earnest eager app programming day laborers see that their visions become reality.
Come. Take a look. This is your near future normal ordinary everyday. This is TBD Catalog.
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Biography:
Julian Bleecker is the co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory and Creative Director of TBD Catalog, a design fiction project of the Near Future Laboratory’s Publishing Bureau. The Near Future Laboratory produced a workshop in Detroit in which the archetype of the product catalog was used as a template to imagine today’s “disruptions” as tomorrow’s normal, ordinary, everyday products. This is what became TBD Catalog.
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http://tbdcatalog.com
http://makingof.tbdcatalog.com
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