This embeds a reference to an opinion by Paola Antonelli about the roles that will exist in the near future within design; namely, theoretical and applied. all other qualifiers will have dissolved to irrelevancy by continued technologically driven convergance.

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Design thinkers, Chuck Jones (VP of Design at Whirlpool) says, are like quantum physicists, able to consider a world in which anything — like traveling at the speed of light — is theoretically possible. But a majority of people, including the Six Sigma advocates in most corporations, think more…