One of those future products is the so called „Funktionide“. It is an amorph object whose intention is to provide the owner with an atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness. In the visions future people are lonely and with all the new dimensions products offer, humans will eventually turn to “robots” for emotional satisfaction.
This gives rise to a number of questions: What happens if products that were proposed as a relief against social isolation begin to become the solution? How will it affect human interactions if people become more and more focused on their products? What will these products look like, or more important how will they behave? Etc.
Will this be the future? A disembodying of the body and embodying of the object? Because it gives rise to another number of questions concerning the body: Will we be witnessing a disappearance of the body? What will human emotions become, if they’re disembodied? Will the shape of the body lose its attractiveness not only as a design feature but also as an emotion provider? What’s human and what’s not? Because, after all, we are talking about an amorph object. .
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