Alex Dobrenko

- "Our algorithmic self may or may not be faithful to how we see ourselves, but it has just as many dimensions and secrets."

oh my gods what an annotation

That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests.

However, this made me ponder how might we evaluate hardware nowadays. In my view, there are three main segments:

• Reinventing: creating new paradigms through new forms, while replacing existing models of thinking and doing.
  
  
  e.g. TV, Smartphones, Laptops, GPS


• Improving: repackaging or wrapping a known experience into a familiar form.
  
  

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1/? the (abridged) story of Curt Herzstark, the brilliant Viennese engineer who invented an incredibly complex handheld mechanical calculator in the Buchenwald concentration camp

A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”

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But I also believe taste is something we can and should try to cultivate. Not because taste itself is a virtue, per se, but because I’ve found a taste-filled life to be a richer one. To pursue it is to appreciate ourselves, each other, and the stuff we’re surrounded by a whole lot more.