We’re About to Enter an Age of Surplus Pixels

“ But we're about to enter an age of surplus pixels – screens sitting there, resting, not showing much, perhaps the odd slide show, screens that aren't the thing we're doing. In public spaces, in offices, in our homes. iPads and iPad-killers are going to be sitting around our living rooms, next to our desks, next our beds. And we'll soon want more on there than our picture libraries Ken Burnsing slowly away to themselves. But we're going to want less than most designers are inclined to design. We'll need a restful, slow, quiet sort of information/entertainment design. Stuff that's happy not to be looked at that much. That'll be interesting. ”

Russell Davies in in his post Ideas whose technology has come, musing on the increasingly relevant lessons of Nicholas Negroponte's 1995 Being Digital.