The 3 documents that we read, the el Lissitzky’s document is the more clarifying. I use “the futuristic manifesto” and “Manifesto of the Constructivist Group” as support for the ideas expressed in the “our book”. In the beginning of the 20th century the authors envision that the future will bring a fastest-pace way of work, increasing the amplitude of colors and the infer the possibilities of newest technologies that were starting new waves of design at that time.
The technology will have a key role in the application of these new techniques shaping the world into a more digital, compact, and easy one. They imagine the world will be shape in a similar way as the printed book with solely works did in the past.
All of them anticipate a world where human society will be attached. Somehow, dominated by the presence of machines. Two of them express a pessimistic and darker vision of that future, And El lissitzky delivered a more positive point of view. They were amazingly accurate with their vision, we are in a world with a faster-pace of work and live, we are surrounded by the machines that catch almost every aspect of our life, the imaginary and sound have the impact that Guttenberg achieved centuries ago with his printing press, and finally, the pessimistic point of view of the manifestos is out here with some negative effects that technology has over human society.
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