Japanese Woodworking As a Metaphor
New technologies typically solve old technology's problems but we certainly can look at it
the other way where new technologies can (re-learn) from old technologies.
In Japanese woodworking there's a joinery that's used that's very unique. When you look at how they build things--as opposed to how we just throw stuff together now--there's certainly something we can gain from doing it the old way, but we always seem to choose the new crappy way because culture is forcing us to pay more attention to it. We have to do the most stupid thing because that's what's going to get the most attention and that's crucial in an attention economy.
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