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TELL ME, DO YOU INTEND TO FUCK IT?
If I had to take a bet of what the majority of iPhone owners are doing right now, it would be very simple → they’re looking at their iPhone. Hardware that powerful, produces an image that is equally powerful and equally shared. The iPhone’s image is one of self-attention.
Each hardware paradigm releases a sort of canonical image that goes along wit... See more
Each hardware paradigm releases a sort of canonical image that goes along wit... See more
In Search of New Software Cultures
The first TV shows were cameras pointed at radio shows. The first mobile phones looked like miniature desktops. When new paradigms come online, we have a tendency to first clone the old before making something transformative, like Westworld or the iPhone.
Daniel Gross • World 2.0 Startups
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
The “magic” of modern technology implies that the trajectory of the digital revolution is objective and unassailable and that the people driving its development are great figures of history. Technological objects, even those that are or seem to be playful or diverting, are designed with a certain purpose in mind, and they can influence us in profou
... See moreLizzie O'Shea • Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
Indeed, fidelity angst is an engine that drives all manners of digital innovation. Each year, consumers purchase devices with faster processors, higher pixel counts, larger screens, lighter and thinner enclosures, more comfortable keyboards, VR, speech-to-text, and voice activation. Each innovation promises a more ideal form of connection via an im... See more
Mack Hagood • Fidelity Angst — Real Life
When you wake up each morning, do you think: what apps do I want to use?
Or do you wonder instead: what goals do I want to achieve?
For the last decade, our smartphones — the most important computers in our lives — have forced us to think about life in a pretty specific way. “There’s an app for that!” Apple proclaimed, as they laid out the very firs... See more
Or do you wonder instead: what goals do I want to achieve?
For the last decade, our smartphones — the most important computers in our lives — have forced us to think about life in a pretty specific way. “There’s an app for that!” Apple proclaimed, as they laid out the very firs... See more