In a previous entry I called out the lack of predictions (and thus, by default, discussion) for the future of the Industrial Design profession. For what it’s worth, that entry was the most recent of a few that have been sitting idle in the cue. And this one… or rather what remains of it… was perhaps the oldest, going back to when I saw something pretty interesting inside Second Life some months back; prior to my post regarding the fashion industry (reLink).
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For those of you with a feed the slowdown and general lack of entries here has probably not gone unnoticed. There’s a relatively simple answer for the reason I’ve not been posting more regularly: I don’t feel compelled to do so. Now here are the reasons for that:

So if you don’t see many posts, now you know why.

That said, I have a few entries started. Whether I post them or not, I don’t know. They deserve more time than I currently have to give. And they may not fit in with where I decide to take this blog.

I’m not much for official predictions, so I won’t bother to make any such announcements here. From my perspective, most people posting prediction lists haven’t really given those predictions sufficient thought and are either doing it because everyone else is (which is somewhat at odds with making worthwhile predictions in the first place, afaic) and/or because they think it’ll drive traffic to their website (which again plays to the “color inside the lines” crowd mentality).

What I do find somewhat interesting is that while there appear to be a significant number of across-the-board predictions for virtual worlds, I haven’t come across a single industry prediction for Industrial Design.
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