This is all correct, and yet I would contend that there is a specific nature to digital technology that pertains to the opacity and fluidity with which its operator can shape it.
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something about the deceptively simple way you can get started that obscures all the ways it can not do what you thought you were shaping it to do that may or may not be about your skill level...
aug 27, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
is digital technology the only/most metatechnology, the one in which you can use the technology to create a whole new technology? like I could adapt a jaquard loom into a pianola, but I couldn't use one to make something totally different like a balloon...
aug 27, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
if anyone ever made a jaquard-driven balloon that pulled out the right punchcard to respond as it went up and down through the 50 differerent layers of wind speed, direction and humidity a pilot deals with, I want to see a picture!
aug 27, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Ha, indeed! That's close to the argument in berjon.com/infrastructu...
aug 27, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I've been swimming in this world for so long I can no longer tell what all my influences are!
aug 27, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view