'The law of the instrument'

'The law of the instrument'

In a lecture, internet artist Constant Dullaart asked himself: if your only tool is an iPhone, what does every problem look like? The question was of course a revision of the well-known statement, often attributed to psychologist Abraham Maslow, that to someone with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. In English, very nicely: the law of the instrument. Evelyn wrote a foreword about it that recently appeared in our biweekly newsletter…