Against Usefulness
This article explores the concept of 'Folk Computer,' an experimental physical computing system developed at Dynamicland. It highlights a shift away from traditional screen-based interfaces toward a collaborative, room-scale environment where physical objects act as programmable code.
Every useful company stands on rails that were once somebody’s stubbornly useless research. I invest in useful for a living. This essay is about the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on. At Motive Force I back both stages. They need each other.
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