“Hey dude, get the bot set up on the door jambs. I’m gonna go get some coffee.”
This will be absolutely a huge hit with carpenters and cabinetmakers. It also creates a whole new industry of add on (or subtract out) decorative detailing in new or old housing.
Modernism was derived from a need for quickly reproducible goods at a low enough price for a mass audience. Hence simplicity and streamlined design became synonymous with ethical and democratic principles.
A new ethos is emerging based upon a different set of ethical and practical needs. Aside from the technology, entrepreneurship has become a necessity in a world with fewer and fewer jobs. Entrepreneurship suggests invention and innovation in a way that employment never did. Niche finding, creating and exploiting are part of the new paradigm.
So decoration returns. He has invented a new piano. He now needs to find a Beethoven to blow away his audience. His presentation is really good though, unpretentious and well grounded.
