A week or so ago, Microsoft debuted a xBox Kinect spot. And apparently all that hand waving has moved beyond simple game play. Now musicians are using the technology as well as doctors and bomb squads. But one commenter summed up the work interestingly, writing, “Thanks goodness! I’ve been waiting for something to replace the cello for years! Now here it is… electronic air cello. Seriously though, why doesn’t anyone consider whether or not these types of ends are valuable? It seems like all we do anymore is make fancy crap to replace things we already had … just new consumer products, making old things (that were perfectly fine i.e. the cello) obsolete for the sake of selling the new thing.”
Welcome to the capitalistic world of marketing my friend. Where consumer needs aren’t always at the top of the list.
