Monday, May 30, 2011

Technology as Magic and Love

Hot Potato for today is from J. Franzen, who's novel Freedom doesn't have an ounce of real love in it.

how the extremely cool things that we can do now with these gadgets — like impelling them to action with voice commands, or doing that spreading-the-fingers iPhone thing that makes images get bigger — would have looked, to people a hundred years ago, like a magician’s incantations, a magician’s hand gestures; and how, when we want to describe an erotic relationship that’s working perfectly, we speak, indeed, of magic.


Technology is not Love

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