Take for example "food preservation". Before refrigerator ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator#History), food is preserved by baking it or natural ice. Then, refrigerator breakthrough the way of preserving food. If talk about the "better refrigerator", needs comes after the tech. If talk about the "preserving food", tech comes after the needs. This depends on how we view the process. Co-evolve maybe the case ( as above said ), they depends on each other.
Cheers, -- Jarod On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Dan Saffer wrote: > > > But more often in practice, existing technologies are applied to new > problems (which may spring from human needs), or new technologies are > applied to existing problems (which may spring from human needs). > > Even if that means bending existing technologies into new forms to tackle > newly found problems. > > Cheers! > > Todd Zaki Warfel > Principal Designer, Messagefirst > Author of Prototyping: a practitioner's guide http://bit.ly/protobk > ---------------------------------- > Contact Info > Voice: (215) 825-7423 > Email: [email protected] > Blog: zakiwarfel.com > Twitter: @zakiwarfel > ---------------------------------- > In theory, theory and practice are the same. > In practice, they are not. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- @jarodtang http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
