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As industrial designer technology is important, very important, because INDUSTRIAL and DESIGN, that says all. 

A way of understand design could be as the series of strategies that we use to solve a problem through the making of an artifice, this could be material or conceptual, a device or a trick. In that way design is the making of technology, so as industrial designers we work with and create technology.

In "this new era" technology has have a huge impact in the different processes of design, from the craft to the industry.

More than make a description of a process in particular I would like to say that the  new kind of material, industrial processes and construction techniques generate a huge impact in the way we think the process of making a "thing". Even if there is a blackout and we are not be able to use "electrical new technologies" and we have to star working on an analogical way, we still gonna try to reproduce and apply those digital processes onto the "analogical post apocalyptic craftmanship scenario". 

The way we use objects and the technology we use on the making of it has changed the way we approach to things and transforms the interaction between us. It establishes new paths for creative activities, for example photography, photocopier and printers at great scale lead us to think the collage as a creative and possible way of create new images. At the time, that method of composition lead us to think in the concept of layers which is the system we used to edit digitally photos today. Or the textile art has always use the same techniques, but today we can understand the process as it was a CNC router or a 3D printer, because we knit follow a coordinate system, the weft and the wrarp, now we can think it digitally.

At the end all is like in Inception, once you put an idea you can't remove it. 


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