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Because at the end of the day you are a mammal and pretending you don't have visceral reactions to sensory input is impoverishing your options, and honestly, robbing you of motivational tools.

Information radiators make no sense at all if you view them from a purely objective standpoint. Wouldn't it be faster to just open the web page on your computer? They only make sense because of the way humans interact with the world (and I suspect in particular, the doorway effect).

The last demo I saw for Pi clustering, the guy fiddled with the blink rate and color of an LED on the motherboards. Sounds boring, as a demo it summed up a whole lot of crap into a simple visual.




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