Intelligent design

This may not look intelligent, or work very intelligently but it gets to the root of a movement really sweeping the nation and world right now, particularly in the realm of running.

Its the barefoot movement. Born from the idea of running with no shoes is better than running with them has given birth to many different barefoot shoe options for the daily consumer but also to runners.

But this isn't really a "design" but rather a school of thought, one that I have been pondering for a while. Its one born from this new notion that shoes are hurting, not helping us. but i have learned since then that its not the shoes at all, but rather the surface we walk on.

One can easily make the connection between the the light padding in shoes to that of the gentel cushioning by the grass laden earth beneath our feet. But since we have left our primitive roots and have given up plains of grass fro the concrete jungle, we were led naturally to the design and development of shoes by becoming sedentary people and abandoning a life or roaming the earth.

So here an interesting, next step, in the thought of shoes, or rather the next advancement of a new surface.