We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that our current reality is a blend of digital and physical experiences, shaped by our perceptions.
Paola Antonelli emphasizes the complex interplay between our physical realities and digital existence, suggesting that our understanding and experience of the world today is a 'minestrone'βa mix of various elements that our minds combine. This idea reflects the shifting nature of reality in an age where both digital and physical components influence our daily lives, emphasizing the unique perception each individual has based on their experiences and interactions.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of technology on human interaction, I quoted Paola Antonelli to illustrate our complex modern reality.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
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The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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