6.14.09
The future
A reading note
Dreyfuss, Designing for People, page 136
They said it would never replace the horse, but more and more it looks as if the automobile is here to stay.
Written in 1955. Swap in book for horse and ebook for automobile, and it may be just as prescient a statement today as it was then.
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