Industrial design is dematerializing and spreading through social networks

*Okay, since this is Paola Antonelli of the NY Museum of Modern Art, this article is written in a shiny, semitranslucent curatorese. However, I think Paola’s right, because she’s describing something that is happening in many other disciplines as well as in design.

*People used to sit next to the factory because that was the basic means of production; even authors rushed to New York because that’s where the presses were spitting ink. If you can offshore that, and phone in the plans… well, yea