Useless Technology
I’ve been mulling over my Mechanisms midterm project (an automated-pie-throwing-machine — I’ll post more info about it later) and it’s got me thinking a lot about useless technology, something that’s interested me for a while. Most technology we actually use is bloated with unused features, and ultimately makes life more complicated, but I love the idea of technology that serves absolutely no useful purpose. So, I was happy to stumble upon this thing, an “Elaborate Mechanism Works and Works to do Nothing Well”, from 1954. Awesome. And the site, modernmechanix.com even has a section devoted to “Useless Tech”.