«It is most interesting to compare the many museum catalogues of “well-designed objects”. Whether printed in the twenties, thirties, fifties or seventies, the objects are usually the same: a few chairs, some automobiles, cutlery, lamps, ashtrays, and maybe a photograph of the ever-present DC-3 aeroplane. Innovation of new objects seems to go more and more towards the development of tawdry junk for the annual Christmas market, the invention of toys for adults. When plugging in the first electric toasters in the twnties, few would have foreseen that in another brief fifty years the same technology that put man on the moon would give us an electric moustache brush, a battery-pack-powered carving for the roast, and electronic programmed dildos.»

Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World. Human Ecology and Social Change, Granada, St. Albans, 1974, p. 105.