Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/09/26/what-is-design-fiction.html
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This is a beautiful machine:
It makes me happy to look at it.
Anybody know what it is? The very large ducting suggests maybe some kind of steam turbine exhaust manifold?
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Fancy!
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I didn’t know Apple had released a picture of the iCar.
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Isn’t design fiction just science fiction with a heavy predictive content? Like what they used to do in the old days before the new wave people got to it?
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I thought that design fiction was when a company says “we removed/changed item X because design” when it is really due to cost savings/whim/change-for-change…
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Wheels would be too skeuomorphic.
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Its a turbine-generator set turning the hot high preassure steam into lukewarm low preassure steam and electricity. Its a very central piece of equipment in most powerplants, I can not say if this is a generator set from a coal powerplant, an nuclear powerplant or other less common powerplants that boil water.
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