The level of scrutiny digital products are now under, and consumer culture's infatuation with malfunction and the glitch, Moradi explains, are pushing technology to absolute perfection.
With that infatuation, consumers -- what used to be called the public -- are giving design enormous authority.
David Opdike's "Vote Your Subconscious" (2001) starts from a point well beyond our infatuation with consumer culture.
So even if consumers develop fickle infatuations with certain products, the business world is clearly developing a deep, abiding love of -- or at least growing respect for -- the power of sustainability.
American consumers have shied away from Mazda cars after an early infatuation with its rotary engine.
WndrCo, the consumer tech investment and holding company founded by longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, has invested $30 million in The Infatuation, a restaurant discovery platform.
As recession gripped the country, the consumer's love affair with green products, from recycled toilet paper to organic foods to hybrid cars, faded like a bad infatuation.
The Times crows that "As recession gripped the country, the consumer's love affair with green products, from recycled toilet paper to organic foods to hybrid cars, faded like a bad infatuation".
The infatuation was mutual.
