Sublime

But intelligence does not smoothly translate into power. Human beings, for most of our history, were just another animal. It took us eons to turn to build the technological civilization that has given us the dominion we now enjoy, and we stumbled often along the way. Some of the smartest people I know are the least effectual. Trump has altered worl... See more

Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.

set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about technology that every builder and user of technology needs to know:

1. All technological change is a trade-off.


2. The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the popula

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If you want to understand a society, don’t listen to what they say about themselves. Look at what they make. So, who are we then? Obsessed with scale, productivity, and the bottom line with little regard for the soul of what’s being made or the souls that’ll be shaped by it. Don’t get me wr... See more