14.7. GlZMANIA WILL RUN OUT OF BATTERIES
Gizmania is a code word for designers' fascination with technology for its own sake and the need to use every technology available. Remember the ransom-note typography when writers first got Macintosh systems? Writers used 27 fonts on every page. Or how about the refrigerator art that infested corporate memos when color printers became common? These outbreaks of gizmania were temporary problems. People soon tired of gewgaws and began to notice the powerful effects of good, restrained design. The same will happen with WBT. Soon, we hope.
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