🏛️ Architecture & Design Apr 20, 2026 · Rachel Paese

The failed promise of big tech might be prompting a cultural revival

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The failed promise of big tech might be prompting a cultural revival
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In his first opinion piece for Design Observer, Matt Colangelo, a senior strategy director at Athletics, reminds us that everything old is new again:










“The world is too much with us; late and soon,



Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;”











These lines could have been written about impulse shopping on Instagram. But alas, they were penned by William Wordsworth in 1802, several decades into the Industrial Revolution. They are among his most famous critiques of the mate

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