That art fixture's placement at the Mission Waymo Depot is kinda cool. It's evocative of a future in which humanity lives a life of indolence propped up by automation.

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polyomino 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Looks like it's GAIA by Marco Cochrane, I remember seeing it out in the desert. It looks like it might not be related to Waymo and just on the adjacent property

	▲	flomo 34 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As an old time burner, sometimes this kind of stuff seems like a flex, like 'you had to be there, sorry pleb' from the tech exec class. Anyway I'm glad they have something there than not.
	▲	schoen 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Thanks, I was assuming it was the same artist as the one at the Embarcadero, and that seems to be right.

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CobrastanJorji 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think the goal is indolence. The goal is freedom. We want a post-need society propped up by automation. That doesn't mean that we should spend our reclaimed time idling, though, but certainly we could.

	▲	atonse an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This is how I describe financial freedom. It’s not a particular number, it’s the freedom from thinking about money. And which number gets you there depends on your lifestyle. And taking a job without any consideration of pay.

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0x38B 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of the half-buried in the sands of time sculptures in Blade Runner 2049; the surrounding self-driving auto depot only adds to the resemblance to some far off future.

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rossjudson 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It makes me think that we need more representations of humans on and in our cities, to remind us about who they are for. We can shift a small amount of architectural scale towards the human.

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ramraj07 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I had to look up indolence. At least for the time being im not indolent enough not to look up such things I suppose.