Comments on: Death of form, not content http://kaljundi.com/2009/05/11/death-of-form-not-content/ Life and technology, as seen from Tallinn, Estonia Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:26:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: juhan http://kaljundi.com/2009/05/11/death-of-form-not-content/comment-page-1/#comment-112 juhan Mon, 11 May 2009 10:49:20 +0000 http://kaljundi.com/?p=91#comment-112 sten has good points. fax should be dead and milk bottles are cool :) regarding jyris list, electric cars won't substitute internal combustion in the near future. in cold climates electric cars are quite useless. electric motors can't provide sufficient heating for the saloon. even these modern cars with small cc engines struggle with heating the saloon on cold days :) then there is also the issue with batteries dying in cold climates. you all know what happens with cell phone and camera batteries when exploring the neighborhood in -15 C in general electric cars rock. just i think that it will take some time before people in the northern hemisphere can enjoy them sten has good points. fax should be dead and milk bottles are cool :)

regarding jyris list, electric cars won’t substitute internal combustion in the near future. in cold climates electric cars are quite useless. electric motors can’t provide sufficient heating for the saloon. even these modern cars with small cc engines struggle with heating the saloon on cold days :)
then there is also the issue with batteries dying in cold climates. you all know what happens with cell phone and camera batteries when exploring the neighborhood in -15 C

in general electric cars rock. just i think that it will take some time before people in the northern hemisphere can enjoy them

]]> By: sten http://kaljundi.com/2009/05/11/death-of-form-not-content/comment-page-1/#comment-111 sten Mon, 11 May 2009 08:30:55 +0000 http://kaljundi.com/?p=91#comment-111 On the disappear/marginalization list I'd add desktop PCs, mechanical data storage with any moving parts, paper and glue based street advertising, coin-operated machinery (vending machines, street parking, etc), magnetic strip cards. Telex and fax machines as well as dot-matrix printers we should be already done with. :) On a non-tech note: I would love for glass (or to generalize - refillable/recyclable) milk bottles to return. We spent some time pondering about the environmental impacts of excess packaging in our MinuEesti brainstorm and the unnecessary volume of tetrapak waste is disturbing. Milkman service with delivery and pickup would be cool. On the disappear/marginalization list I’d add desktop PCs, mechanical data storage with any moving parts, paper and glue based street advertising, coin-operated machinery (vending machines, street parking, etc), magnetic strip cards.

Telex and fax machines as well as dot-matrix printers we should be already done with. :)

On a non-tech note: I would love for glass (or to generalize – refillable/recyclable) milk bottles to return. We spent some time pondering about the environmental impacts of excess packaging in our MinuEesti brainstorm and the unnecessary volume of tetrapak waste is disturbing. Milkman service with delivery and pickup would be cool.

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