Personally I prefer functionally tactile artifacts to imitation tactile artifacts, but both of them do look pretty cool. (Imagine the difference between a mechanical wristwatch and an electronic wristwatch which has an internal speaker emit a ticking sound. The electronic wristwatch keeps better time, but if you're going for extravagantly wasteful obsolete technology, then go for the freaking gold.)
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Personally I prefer functionally tactile artifacts to imitation tactile artifacts, but both of them do look pretty cool. (Imagine the difference between a mechanical wristwatch and an electronic wristwatch which has an internal speaker emit a ticking sound. The electronic wristwatch keeps better time, but if you're going for extravagantly wasteful obsolete technology, then go for the freaking gold.)