2/
The human condition is embodied, recognizes its fragility, frequently toggles between the mediated and unmediated, requires private spaces, and is finite. By contrast, the User Experience is disembodied and digital, it is trackable and databased and usually always mediate. It lacks privacy and promises no limits - even after death, when, as several new technologies promise, our digital remnants can be gathered and engineered into posthumous chatbots to comfort our grieving family members.
The philosopher Theodor Adorno decried the "false realism" created by television in 1954. He argued that we do not simply watch TV. TV also influences how we understand the world if we regularly watch it - our expectations and our common cultural concerns.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/appassionato/statuses/116038247391542255 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)