Are We There Yet? · Section 8

Monkey See, Monkey Prototype

The thing before the thing — and how easily it can be faked. The first iPhone was a bare red circuit board, and the vocabulary of modern making (sketch, wireframe, mockup, MVP) is a vocabulary for being wrong cheaply. Then it turns dark: a 1770 chess automaton with a man inside, a robot reveal that was a dancer in a bodysuit, cashier-less shops watched from India.

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