“ In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works…Elevator design is rooted in deception—to disguise not only the bare fact of the box hanging by ropes but also the tethering of tenants to a system over which they have no command.
The New Yorker: Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (via gtmcknight) (via superamit)
Bastards!
2 months ago