I stood today on London's Vauxhall Bridge with many others watching those last concorde fly by. I had the feeling that people were watching the passing of the last idols for the religion that was "progress". I think people have the feeling watching it that things could really get better and man can make things of great beauty and novelty. Now we just subscribe to the commerical principles that brought about its end (and didn't bring about its creation in the first place).
Whatever the future may bring, although it wont be so different to what you've seen before, it will be cheap and so non-descript you wont even notice the design (or lack of it). Innovation is by definition conspicuous.
