How to sell Computers to Orthodox Monks

25 January 2007 · Interface concepts · Culture · Originally published on wanderingabout.com

A video about how technology may affect certain cultures, and what could be changed in the computer as it is today, so we will not need to change the cultures themselves. How to sell computers for monks is a proposition that designers should start thinking about the laggards, the last people to adopt technologies, as benchmarks. Because if we can fit their requirements of a non-intrusive and fail-proof equipment, then we will build a better machines for all of us.

If you like this you can see a first video draft (with a different script) here:

how to sell computer to monks video screenshot

about: Made in 2006/07 as a final diploma project

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