When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.

— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An Es

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the internet is now so embedded within the human developmental process.

it's not merely a collection of servers and clients.

its evolutions shape us with each passing generation.

in turn, we shape its evolution, feeding into what it has fed us.

it follows from 4E cogsci that app/site interfaces will drastically affect our cognitive development. at leas

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