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<p>OK, so it turns out this isn’t real… it’s a fake letter, which was originally part of this entire spoof page:</p>
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<p>I only saw this element though, and put it up here because it amused me, and thought it would amuse others.</p>
<p>That happened on a slightly bigger scale than I imagined…</p>
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<p>Firstly, it’s another example of how that the internet allows anyone to take a whole, finished thing, and strip away an element they want to centre on. &nbsp;In the context of the whole spoof, the letter is preposterous. &nbsp;On its own, in the land of twitter, it’s plausible… or at least just plausible enough.</p>
<p>Funnily enough, at the science fiction display&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bl.uk/sciencefiction">Out Of This World</a>&nbsp;at the British Library that we went to last week, one of the talking heads stated that the interesting thing about science fiction is that you could make ONE completely off-the-scale leap of imagination, but then had to work as hard as you could to make the rest plausible.</p>
<p>Which is what this letter is symptomatic of, I guess… &nbsp;the outlandish thing is maybe Sean writing to Steve, or perhaps Steve asking in the first place. &nbsp;</p>
<p>The rest is a beautifully done "what would a letter from Sean Connery be like..?". &nbsp;Would he still use a typewriter, how would he swear, is he still lost in the image of the Bond days..? &nbsp;It’s all plausible enough to the collective image of him to make people think ‘this could be true…’</p>
<p>Which brings us to the other thing… it’s just believable enough, stripped of the context, for it to spread around twitter like wildfire. <a href="http://twitter.com/mariethetwit">Marie</a> sent me the delightful news that my twittername was trending across the UK…</p>
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<p>Hardly the desired intention. &nbsp;</p>
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<p><strong>So yes, it’s a fake, though it’s a very funny one. &nbsp;And it’s part of this, which throws the letter into sharp context…</strong></p>
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Whilst doing some research (i.e. procrastinating) for the&nbsp;<a href="http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2011/06/firestarters-2-design-thinking-in-planning.html">Google Firestarters</a>&nbsp;thing&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/neilperkin">Neil Perkin</a>&nbsp;invited&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/thulme">Tom Hulme</a>&nbsp;of IDEO and myself to speak at tomorrow, I’ve stumbled across this on a blog called ‘Spatial Breakbeat Research’.<div><p /><div>In particular, I love this&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spatialbreakbeatresearch.com/the%20torture%20of%20craft/the%20torture%20of%20craft.html">post on The Torture of Craft</a>…&nbsp;</div><p /><div>…the infinite loop within our designed culture between striving for perfection, then railing against it when it’s achieved to go to something primitive and basic as a next stage…</div><p /></div><p><div class=’p_embed p_image_embed’>
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</p><p></p><div><p /><div><i>"this regression into a more primitive expression has happened countless times before,&nbsp;only to spark yet another push forward towards even greater precision. &nbsp;Each cycle is not without its evolutionary&nbsp;marker, however; it is assured that each time the return to the primitive unavoidably becomes imbued with the perfection&nbsp;it was trying to deny; like a pair of $500 designer pre-worn jeans, patinaed to perfection, each cycle produces a product&nbsp;so mastered in its raw form, its price or place in society has never been called into question."</i></div><p /><div><a href="http://www.spatialbreakbeatresearch.com/the%20torture%20of%20craft/the%20torture%20of%20craft.html">Read the whole thing</a>.</div><p /><p /><div>Anyway, maybe it’s why we’ve got these wonderful, space age devices that we love to use to take pictures of our lives we could have found in a shoebox from thirty years ago…</div><p /><p /></div><p><div class=’p_embed p_image_embed’>
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</p><p></p><div><p /><p /><p /><div>Maybe I’ll see you at Firestarters tomorrow. &nbsp;If I stop posting minorly interesting things I’ve found on the internet, and finish this presentation…</div><p /></div>

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