June 2009
22 posts
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Technology is Nature
It seems to me technology is a phenomenon of nature, with no author. It grows rapidly precisely because nobody is in charge of it, or has a means to stop it. Instead, they argue with it as if it were listening to their questions. They frown about it, and exalt in it; make claims for it, even doubt it with absurd philosophic rigour. But they are talking to a stranger. Technology is a deaf, dumb,...
Biophilia
An acquaintance of mine has a teenage daughter. Like most teens in this century she spends her day texting her friends, abbreviating her life into 140 character hints, flinging these haikus out to an invisible clan of mutual texters. It’s an always-on job, this endless encapsulation of the moment. During dinner, while walking, on the toilet, lounging in bed, or in any state of wakefulness,...
