Surely this march of progress is all to the good. Who would want to go back to the days before pencils and tracing paper? But the fierce productivity of the computer carries a price—more time at the keyboard, less time thinking. The thumb-nail sketch—an architectural staple since at least the Renaissance—risks going the way of the T-square. “But architecture is about thinking. It’s about slowness in some way. You need time,” Renzo Piano said in an interview last year. “The bad thing about computers is that they make everything run very fast, so fast that you can have a baby in nine weeks instead of nine months. But you still need nine months, not nine weeks, to make a baby.”
- Witold Rybczynski, Have computers made architects less disciplined?
This is an endless refrain, going back to Diderot and the ancient Greeks, that our tools will make us less though our reliance on them. Socrates blamed written language for the decline in memory and deep thought, although he is known to us only through the writings of others, like Plato.
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