'Art is long and time is fleeting.'

The above quote has been variously attributed to the philosophers Horace and Seneca. It also appears in the English in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s, A Psalm of Life, 1839.

Whoever first propounded it was probably the earliest philosopher to admit that art and philosophy had a purpose beyond the edification of the rich, bored and tired. Many centuries later, the Bauhaus School advocated the combination of form and function to establish the basis of modern design.

Nowhere is the relationship between form and function as tenuous as in Interactive design. The two sides of the medium are growing almost oblivious of each other.

Interactive design is today’s new Wild West. It needs to be tamed and civilized. Design structures and rules change every day. Trends appear and disappear. There are no good technologies or bad ones; only that which survives and that which is transient.

“Time is Fleeting” attempts to explain the web as it is at this point in time. Sociology, economics and politics are often factors that decide how technology is absorbed or rejected by society. They also play a leading role in trends and usage patterns.

Technology cannot be abstracted from people and basic human nature. “Time is Fleeting” gives you the human aspect of technology and all that influences the use of technology in our lives.