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Affordance

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What does the object allow us to do? What it allows us to do is its affordance. But some objects are generic and have multiple affordances. It is OK to do something with them and at another time it is also possible to do something else with them. This generic quality will have to be known in greater detail. The generic is the object that has not found its unique function yet. Some objects do not ever find their unique function. They remain like idle objects that can be used as chairs of a varying efficiency. A chair can be just a sitting surface with a backrest or it could be a sitting surface that could be of the right height and the right depth. It could have arms. It could magically match perfectly the height of the table that is not a table.

Objects that have not found their affordance form the blueprint of our future.

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