Post #1992721
2026-03-30 08:23 UTC
@ephemeral It's disconcerting to accept that technologies are latently violent, but... being invented and used by people, it only makes sense.
On culture or technology — ¿por qué no los dos? 🙂 Consider how written language → printing → internet provides one (simplified) progression of cultural technologies that drastically changed the possible audience and the way they engage with/read text?
I first wrote "consume text", but the commercial connotations may only dig this hole deeper yet…
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@ephemeral@mograph.social 2026-03-31 11:50
@haverholm absolutely they can be both! Fair point! I guess I'm just teasing things out a little. Interesting to sequence language -> printing -> internet. I sometimes wonder if the internet is more like language -> semaphore -> telegraph -> internet. Or maybe, again, both. I don't mind this hole digging deep :) I'm asking the question using a socratic method because I'm trying to help myself through the labyrinth too. I don't expect an answer but am really grateful for your replies.