Sunday, May 01, 2011

An engineer and a phenomenologist walk into an elevator...

On facebook I posed the following question that has baffled me every time I have waited in an elevator:

"Do 'Door Close' buttons in elevators really work, or are they just there to give us the illusion of control?"
I received two very different answers.

 From Alexander Miles, the inventor of the automatic elevator door:
"They interrupt a wait time and begin the closing procedure which is not immediate."
From Edmund Husserl, the father of phenomenology:
"They interrupt a wait time and begin the closing procedure which is not immediate."

Posted by the narrator at 6:05 PM

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