? Is technology or culture the problem?
Technology is both the problem and the solution.
L'Atelier • Economic opportunities for our avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier
The term “cynical romantic” might seem odd, since cynicism and romanticism are typically regarded as opposites. Whereas romantics are devoted to pursuing aesthetic beauty, sentimentality and the sublime, cynics deride everything and everyone as motivated purely by self-interest; they reject all contrary evidence as fatal stupidity or risible
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As we have seen in the previous theses, our digital environment:
Regulates our lives towards a smaller number of paths purposely designed by others rather than trails more fortuitous and exploratory.
Builds up a monolithic authentic self rather than a lush set of mutually-enriching contextual identities.
Is heavily focused on categorising people,
Robin Berjon • Retrofuturism
(Jono from Sketchplanations).
"Our various technological prostheses become extensions of our absentmindedness as they become more refined." - Duncan Reyburn