Is there an iconic button you remember as a kid? What made it special?
We’ll be talking about button technology on this week. We asked you on Twitter what your favorite buttons were to push as a kid. In her book, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing, Rachel Plotnick says “buttons continue to crystallize enduring societal hopes and fears about ‘easy’ technological solutions to all manner of problems.” Plotnick discuss the development of buttons and what they reveal about our interactions with technology. Buttons were used as a form of one-way communication in wealthy households and would later be developed for consumers to interact with vending machines, cameras and other tools.īut buttons also are often associated with feelings of control, panic, and fear.
In the late 19th century, buttons were being developed as a way to interact with electrification that was coming into homes and workspaces.
It allows us to interact with our computers and technology, alerts us when someone is at the front door, and with a tap, can have dinner delivered to your home.
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