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(n.)
The preference for technology with real buttons, switches, and texture, for the haptic comfort of something that pushes back.
Everyone under thirty looked at her blankly when she said she missed the tactilism of the mouse button.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Tactile + -ism, this was a label originally coined by Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti for his 1921 Manifesto of Tactilism which used human touch as a medium for art; now revived over a century later for the growing modern pushback against flat glass.
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