RE-THINK OUR INNOVATION IMPACTS

Today I lived a situation that makes me think again about evolution / innovation and the effects they bring to society and people.
We decided to have breakfast in the center of Almada in a café whose interior space "stopped" in time, at least thirty years ago .... the place was not full, I saw only older residents ...  but the food was simple and, maybe due to te habit, I waited to take the table board, the waiter kindly ask us to see down because she would take the food to our table herself... the people talked to us and wished everything good for our lives, losing (or winning) 5 or 10 minutes to talk about the life and simple things but who show affection and attention to others ...
I miss this feeling, this kind of emotion and sense of citizenship / community, values ... made me think what we are doing ... why this constant pressure to have everything "new" to be and be fashionable?
Why do we give more importance to this to fashions than to the essence of people and sociability?
Could this coffee be lost in time and fashions, or was it retained in the values and essence of being a space of community and sharing? And if that is the heart of things for what walls filled with visual codes of trends but inhuman and mischaracterized of context and belonging?
I am by nature creative and innovative but increasingly feel that we are moving away from the genuineness of things ... so I defend a Design in context and focused on the nature and simplicity of things and the life (human feeling) they contain.
Curiously enough, I read today that 61-year-old Italian economist Michele Boldrin, who teaches at the Department of Economics at Washington University, St. Louis, USA, drew attention to the inequalities that innovation causes, "There is no growth without innovation, and because there is no growth without innovation, Inequality is a side effect of economic growth. Everything you invent tends to give advantage to some people and replace others, diminishing the utility of the latter from the social point of view. If I have the cognitive and legal ability to imitate you, I can recover, doing the same and returning to be useful. "
We know that this inequality has also been the engine of our evolution, but today the price to pay is higher. It is necessary to stop to re-think and change the structures of society, from educational to partners in order to avoid serious problems and difficult to recover ...
I believe the best way is not just "following" perennial fashions ....
Américo Mateus, Ph.D – Head of research DELLI- Design Lusófona Lisboa

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