Life Imitates Design?

The other day I was walking around the city with my friends and after a while they started getting tired and falling behind. One of them held up her hand and made a blinking gesture by opening and closing her fingers to single she was tired. I asked her why she did that and she said “You know when your mac is sleeping and the little light pulses? Thats what I’m doing.”

I found this to be pretty interesting. My friend picked up a behavior from watching a machine. So what is this, life imitating design? We are so affected by our machines that the things they do, we try to imitate.  We as humans naturally try to relate things in our environment. My friend has established a relationship with this product she interacts with everyday which seems odd to the casual observer but I think is just as natural as imitating the behavior of friends, pets, or anything else.