Machines v. Humans

iab, I don’t think that is a totally fair assessment. There will always be multiple simultaneous trends, counter trends, and just bad design and taste. While it might not be at Walmart, it was at Target (largely moved through, but still can be found in some sections) and Ikea. Mid market it did very well at the likes of West Elm, CB2, and even moved things at Crate and Barrel and Room & Board… and of course at the high end with DWR. I think we will see a return to modernism in shared devices like autonomous transport. I could even see a bifurcation with owned objects going through extreme customization and shared objects becoming super clean, devoid of expression. You can kind of see this already with the crazy customization (not always tasteful) that Bentley, Ferrari, and RR are doing.