Collections are a wonderful thing. Especially this one.

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” ― Martin Heidegger (1950s, with caveats)

The main difference between this time and now is you. When you want to get back to reading blogs, RSS feeds, and finish that tutorial instead of doomscrolling shorts, you have to get used to a slower internet. One where content is not infinite and doesn’t get updated every click.

The..."intentional internet is still around. It has just been a bit buried below the corporate web, but it’s not very hard to find."

From what I've encountered of your brain here, it's awesome!

That’s an excellent way of putting it!

Same here!

The hand was designed, over several million years, to learn by touch. We have given it glass.

The touchscreen is a tool the body cannot learn. Every swipe, every tap, every pinch requires the eye to confirm what the finger is doing. The body cannot build a map of a surface that never changes. So the learning never finishes. The tool never disappears.

The tool drops below conscious awareness and the person is freed to attend to something else, to the joint, the route, the argument.

When the body learns a tool, the tool disappears. The carpenter stops thinking about the hammer. The driver stops thinking about the steering wheel. The reader stops thinking about the way letters are formed on the page and imagines the world the writer weaved.

Some tools the body learns. Some tools the body cannot learn. This is the difference between a car and a touchscreen.

Every centimeter of distance between the designer's hand and the material that they use is a tax paid by the person who has to live alongside the object.

Everything in the virtual world is made for your eyes And you feel like you have agency because you're able to move But that movement is stillness in disguise. You're moving nowhere