Yet the predicted dates for these fantasies to become reality have come and gone and our architectural environment has remained relatively unchanged. There seems to be a common belief among designers that to be progressive, architecture must become more curvilinear and organic in form. Maybe, as in other fields, designers have underestimated the degree to which people want or the speed with which they can accept change. Especially today with the rapid speed of digital turnover, it seems safe to say that people can not change as fast as our technology. Peter F. Smith has found that psychological studies indicate humans need an aesthetic balance between the new and the familiar to feel excited about a new object or idea.
People find pleasure when there is a balance between the two.
Technology has gotten so far ahead of us that it has the opportunity to lap us in the race. But instead of thinking of it a full lap ahead we can consider that it is going to come up alongside us to work together. We could not have asked technology to be constrained. It had to sprint out ahead of our culture to test its legs so that it could find a way back into it. Because of the fact technology will become less visible yet friendlier, it should become less inhibiting.