Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The Search for a Better Laundry App; or, What is Wrong With Everything


As long time EIGN reader and occasional contributor jg3 said when sending us this next story: "First. World. Problem. !"
"We are living in a time of Great Change, and also a time of Not-So-Great Change. The tidal wave of innovation that has swept out from Silicon Valley, transforming the way we communicate, read, shop, and travel, has carried along with it an epic shit-ton of digital flotsam. ... the brightest minds of a generation, the high test-scorers and mathematically inclined, have taken the knowledge acquired at our most august institutions and applied themselves to solving increasingly minor First World problems." (nymag.com)
The story purports to be about the search for the ultimate laundry app, but really it reads as great cultural commentary on what we've become as a society.

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