added by Keely Adler · updated 1y ago
Embracing Tangible Media?
- This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to ... See more
andrea and added
- Media and technology are always extensions of ourselves out there into the physical world. And the media and technology at our disposal has a drastic impact on not only what we think of as being a human being but also on our very perceptions, on what we perceive at all.
from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
sari added
- the assortment of technologies structuring our experience—including, for example, AI assistants, predictive algorithms, automated tools, and smart devices—serve to reanimate the seemingly mute, mechanical, and unresponsive material landscape of technological modernity.
from LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment by Substack
Keely Adler added