The future glassmorphic design standard in tech is eloquent with the historical moment we live in. Technofeudalism at its most fertile time; the blend with physical reality and digital environments while renting the digital space must appeal to the teleological and emotional unconscious of the masses. If the aesthetic appeal of the times were different, AI and Spatial Computing technologies wouldn’t be the most effective vehicles of ideological memes for pushing the master systemic ideology.
We’ve seen in the last five years the transition from the uncanny VR, the uncanny multilayer perceptron outputs (images, video or text) and how ideological capitalists were the first evangelists of this technologies at a consumer/worker level to the last Google’s Veo 3 videos in ads and rage bate content, ChatGPT as an immediate more-than-second-brain or as a pseudo therapeutic companion. While writing this at a café I eavesdropped a signora confessing to a friend that ChatGPT has fully pleased her therapeutic needs and that her family has a full relationship with it as if it were another member of the family.
I must say I’m not a moralist regarding the material aesthetics of our times, hence I do not impose a moral but only an aesthetic judgment on glassmorphism. I do in fact enjoy it for what I’ve seen in mockups or in the Apple Vision interface recordings.
The technological singularity won’t be General AI, it will be Spatial Computing with pseudo personalized AI models. Do prepare for this.