Have we been living Groundhog Day for 20 years? Or, The end of the end of history
VF illustration by James Taylor
The only thing that has changed fundamentally and dramatically about stylish objects (computerized gadgets aside) during the last 20 years is the same thing that’s changed fundamentally and dramatically about movies and books and music—how they’re produced and distributed, not how they look and feel and sound, not what they are.