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Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair

41 points · 61 comments · speckx

  1. sho · · focus · HN ↗
    I really dislike attitudes like the author's. I think it's great and important that people and companies spend considerable amounts of their time and money exploring the limits of design and what's possible, even if the concepts produced have little direct, practical use today. That kind of speculative R&D can lead to great things and who knows, maybe in 20 years it will lead to something amazing that will benefit a great deal of people.

    Trying to pooh-pooh the ideas of tomorrow because they don't immediately solve all the problems of today is just terrible, short-sighted thinking.

    And on a more pedantic note, obviously someone asked for it, else it wouldn't have been made at all. What the author really means is "I didn't ask for a crab chair".

    1. red-iron-pine · · focus · HN ↗
      > What the author really means is "I didn't ask for a crab chair".

      no what they mean is that the average disabled consumer did not ask for the crab chair

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