James Pierce in his PhD dissertation paper writes: “Resistance is offered as a technique to be developed and refined, extended into other domains and concerns, and realized in the form of new design works(Pierce, 2015, P11).” And he put forward different products that represents the idea “working by not quite working” and slow technology(Odom, 2012, P1), like Camera Obscura 1C(Pierce, 2015). Reflecting on how we send messages today, our group intends to retrieve people’s mindful experience of sending messages to the person afar by creating two linked devices. On one end there is a old-fashioned typewriter and on the other end the printer. With the typewriter, the sender can only type one sentence and hit send button once. For the receiver end, it will print this message out with the printer. It calls the user to think mindfully before sending a message, inserting more space for imagination, and increases expectation and surprise.

    Ending this message with a quote by Charles Dickens in his book A Tale of Two Cities:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

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