It was not only technology—promising in the 1960s—that failed in the 1970s; it was in a sense the whole universe of Modernist promise and expectation

One truly novel alternative to the hopelessness of the 1970s emerged in the latter years of the decade, when various stems of anti-Modernist ideas combined in a coherent post-modern worldview. Architecture, first but then also in philosophy and science. The postmodern sciences of intricacy and non-linearity provided a bold conceptual framework where a new architectural project, could at long last thrive. But the revolutionary phase of post modernism was short. In 1984, many postmodern ideas were endorsed famously by Prince Charles, and soon the old aristocrats alike. They became known for their traditionally conservative ideology, and often reactionary political stance. unsurprisingly, it is this peculiar trend of historic ism or Post modernism that today’s Post-Digitals: appear to have chosen as their reference and inspirational source—but that would be a topic for another discussion.

At least we know where they stand. But it grieves and worries me to see so much skill and effort being thrown away today in the deliberate pursuit of failed models. What is so exciting in the revival and showy display of so many vintage technology, and in the celebration of the awareness of the inevitability of failure? Is “suicide” really our best line of action today? Some said so in the 70’s, and we can now see with what results. Nostalgia, portrays Don Draper in season I, episode 13 of Mad Men, originally meant in Greek ,“the pain from an old wound.” But to feel that pain, one must have been wounded in the first place.