All you little superheroes...
...Dancing on the borderline...
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Februar 2016 Archiv
Powerless Miracles.
Dampfmenschine.
The common use of computers, as we understand them today, as sources for models and metaphors of ourselves is probably about as reliable as the use of the steam engine was back then.
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not A Gadget.
Love Cycles.
Die Liebe auf dem Zweirad ist die wahre Nächstenliebe.
Johannes Theodor Baargeld
Soci(otechnologic)al Reduction.
Am I accusing all those hundreds of millions of users of social networking sites of reducing themselves in order to be able to use the services? Well, yes, I am. [...]
When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?
[...] on a typical social networking site, either you are designated to be in a couple or you are single (or you are in one of a few other predetermined states of being) — and that reduction of life is what gets broadcast between friends all the time. What is communicated between people eventually becomes their truth.
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not A Gadget.