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TO DISAPPEARANCE: To pass from view suddenly or gradually. To cease to be.
HIDDEN: Being out of sight; concealed, obscure, unexplained.
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Many complex objects are now disguised as if they were simple. Sometimes people try their hardest to hide the way the complex inner workings, if easily seen, would take away from the overall appearance of simplicity. This kind of style will come to dominate the creation of objects that will increasingly become filled with computer chips and mechanical parts, as cameras and cell phones are now filled with such things.
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Once the outward appearance of our objects do not require any sign of the complexity contained in them, people will want to make them look older and older. When the functionality is seperated from the appearance our devices will be freed from the tyranny of utilitarian design and begin to look any way we want them to; sometimes complex but probably more often than not simple while still consisting of complex inner parts.
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Once this approach becomes popular there will be a stage where people will look down on anything that trys to look technological. "In," will be hidden but our devices will have much technology inside of them. Though this technological "look" may come in and out of style, no longer will advanced technology rule the appearance of everything and all styles, past and present, will be welcome.
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Our houses will become absent of things like phones, radios, television sets, computers, etc..., and furniture arrangement will become disassociated from objects that once aligned them. Except for lighting, plumbing, and kitchenware, houses may take on a bleak sort of look while being simultaneously high tech.
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Once our garments become intelligent and able to sustain our body temperature anywhere, we may not even need to live inside of structures. If we can then simulate any environment and the sights and sounds anywhere could be home and the term homeless may not mean what it does now. The requirement for physical structures may be radically altered, though most people will still prefer to live inside of them.
A corperate executive could be laying on a beach or high in the snow covered mountains, with nothing but a pair of sunglasses and a few garments directing the workings of an economic giant from thousands of miles away. This while appearring simply to be tourist taking it easy.
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Like any other trend, this movement whether in or out at the time, will alter the appearance of our environment from what it has been during the last 100 years. Our gadgets will be on us and this will clean out the clutter of technology that has dominated the 20th century. A scene from a millennia ago could look and feel more modern than some of the contemporary settings that will result from this disappearance of technology!
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The first major step in this direction will come when information processing devices shrink to the point where the casing that contains them will have to be artificially inflated just to take up enough space to even appear to be something. Style will once again dictate the size and shape of objects instead of utilitarian practicality and taste will express itself in our surroundings.
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When all of our present electronic media, phones, radios, talevisions, computers, and internets, all fit in one lightweight pair of glasses, technological design will not be such a determining factor in our world, as itis now and has been for some time. People could actually look like they were from a time centuries ago but still have all technology on them at all times.
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