When you wire a smart thermostat into a 1920s bungalow or drop an induction range into a 1950s kitchen, you are not just adding gadgets, you are asking an older system to behave like a new one. The ...

JOSEPH HUDNUT, Dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, is the logical critic to present this provocative philosophy because his own progressiveness, as well as his penetrating mind and persuasive ...