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Reader Submitted: Dear System: Imagining an Intelligent Future for the Toaster

Dear System is my final graduation project for Product Design BA at Edinburgh College of Art. It is a study into our increasingly amorphous relationships with appliances within the home, envisioning the object as service, and the user as product. In the connected home, objects are market-driven to cannibalize attention and work in increasingly complex ways to keep it. A phone buzzes, and a microwave dings, but what if our mundane objects became imbued with this technological power as a means of competing for our attention and encouraging use every day?