Today groups are mostly based and formed by share interest and passion rather than historical factors such as age, gender, race, class and religion
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Designers create the interfaces that run on most devices including computers, mobile phones and multimedia devices such as mp3 players. These devices give us access to other people like us and since these objects are used across different people and groups with different knowledge and customs therefore designers try to find and develop interfaces which are more common among many cultures. This includes touch screens and gesture devices such as Iphones.
People are seeking comfortable space to live, today the factors of a comfortable place has been changed, people search not only for security, protection and privacy but also for connections to form groups, sharing information and data. Open source software, computer and wireless networks, social networks, wikis and forums all are the example of collaborating users.
The Walkman was the beginning point of this revolution, today we see many smaller electronic and digital devices that expand users private space beyond their public physical space.
Transformation of technology towards portability and efficiency is called Existenzmaximum.
Existenzminimum identified as a lower quality version of high density life. This approach has effected gentler applications such as planning of private spaces for lower and middle classes including design of offices and other technical spaces.
Based on ideas popularized in the 1960 and 1970, this revolutionary concept of expanding, growing, breathing, walking and digestive structure affected the cities as well. example : introduction of thermoplastic materials which invited and demanded fluidity.
Over the twentieth century Existenzmaximum intoduced itself by a new mean of communication to the outside world, beginning with the telephone, radio and eventually television.
Twentieth century's evolution is based on objectives to form a better and more efficient society.
XMX has begun with small objects which can be worn or carried. It lets you sense and imagine outside world selectively. The object can produce sounds and vision. These includes video-game devices equipped with sensors which bring new experiences to players such as feeling a real pain.
Extreme technological progress helps us reconnect with some of human nature and body senses.
Telephone versus VOIP is a good example of this progress while phones provide long distance conversation, VOIP provides video conferencing feature through cameras attached to computers.
Existenzmaximum is more about wireless technology and mobile phones. Today mobile phones are not just a communication device, but rather the standard of communication. Different parts of the world take advantage of them differently. For example the competition among US companies is focused on the accessibility of complex services including paying for car parking, bus rides, charity donation, banking and GPS services.
Previous studies by Japanese mobile communications companies showed that 85% of the world population use cell phones and there are 2.5 billion mobile service subscribers world wide.
Broadbent discovered that the dream of convergence of all type of communication devices within one device is far from real, people instead use e-mail, phones. instant messaging and SMS in different ways.
All of these mobile communication, wireless networks and collective actions can be traced back to the idea of open source which simply says an ocean of minds is better that one.
The open source embraced to mobiles, car designs and the buildings and occupations of alternative worlds.
A good example of open-source is wikis which is the most referenced example in this manner.
Linux OS was the beginning of open source and most successful example is Mozilla's firefox browser.
The concept of open source has helped the rapid manufacturing by transmitting data directly from a computer to the manufacturing machine. Today RM machines take seven days to print a solid chair, but in future it will be seven hours, 7 minutes and so on. In future anyone will be able to access a chair or even a car to customize it while it keeps its functionality, safety and branding.
This will be a new transformation for design, production, distribution and shopping.
Every object will be at the same time a prototype and an element of a diversified series. Designers will be working not on single objects but instead on whole families of objects.
Manufactures will host forums to gain feedback from customer and learn from them. Basically this approach eliminate the waste of resources and space.
In order to take advantage of future world, there must be some sort of rules that will ensure respect and trust between individuals and among groups.
