Blake Scholl: prediction

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…What else would you change, or maybe I should say, will you change about the interiors of airlines? Ooh, we’re cooking something on this that I can’t steal my own thunder on, but the meta insight is designing the interior and the airplane together. I think you get the best results when you’ve got designers that think like engineers and engineers that think like designers, and then just hold a very high bar. Long before I started Boom, every time I got in an airplane, I would ask myself, “What would this be like if somebody who cared as much as Steve Jobs or Jony Ive had designed it?” It’s a very dangerous question to ask because it makes you start to notice things that you can’t unsee once you’ve seen them. Okay, here it goes. If you look above the window seat on basically any airplane today, you will notice there’s a dark spot in the same place in every row. This is from where people stand up and they bump their heads and their head schmutz ends up on the underside of the overhead bin — sorry, you can’t unsee that — and nobody ever cleans it. It’s a one-way door. If you care about this stuff, it’s all very solvable. I think there is something that we’ll reveal, I don’t know, maybe a year or two, that is a striking interior that is possible only when you design the airplane and the interior together. How will your new interiors improve the quality of the food? It will make that possible too, right?…

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