Sublime

Marshall McLuhan wrote that every new technology was an extension of the human body but also an amputation of the same function from the body itself, and computers’ ability to furnish us with a second brain implies that our first brains have correspondingly atrophied.

In 1980, Steve Jobs was discussing computing and used a simple yet powerful metaphor for how computers can be bicycles for the mind. Technology amplifies our capabilities — and computing can now do the same thing for our minds. Here are two versions of the same talk by Jobs — one in 1980 and another ten years later, both around a min

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Human minds are not elusive, ghostly inner things. They are seething, swirling oceans of prediction, continuously orchestrated by brain, body, and world . We should be careful what kinds of material, digital, and social worlds we build, because in building those worlds we are building our own minds too.