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The hard critique of technology from someone who loves technology—not from someone who hates it—might be the most important kind of criticism we need right now. And it’s the one almost nobody is writing.

One of the themes we’ve been exploring this month is the idea that archives help creatives draw on the past to imagine the future. How does archiving influence your work or process?

The only constant at various phases of my creative process is wading through a field of references. I have a decade worth of quotes, lines from songs, paintings,... See more

aving seen through the superficiality and clumsiness of the normal way of doing things, you are less likely to trust conventional wisdom going forward and more likely to trust your eyes. You know that there are deeper layers to reality and have a sense for how to access them.

And then all of reality becomes something you can horse around with.

Most systems can be viewed at multiple levels. There is a superficial system which pretends to be made of one thing (walls, hens). But actually, it is really made of something else (bits, memory allocations). And if you learn to understand that underlying system, you can find ways to use the lower-level details to steer the system in a way that... See more