Make Technology Transparent Again
On the Nothing Phone (2) and why we love transparent things - out now in The Spectator
“In the sixteen years since the first iPhone debuted, smartphones have become ubiquitous; the market is so large and flooded that innovation is no longer worth the risk. Phones are not cool new devices, but tools. You don’t care how a hammer looks; you care about the price and if it can hit a nail. The latest iPhone is a tool for accessing the internet and taking selfies. Most Android phones are the same but cheaper.
There’s little excitement in consumer technology. But not nothing. Or, shall I say, Nothing.”
Out now in The Spectator: on the appeal of transparency and the Nothing Phone (2). Give it a read!