Technology isn't neutral. It is ambivalent. As historian Lewis Mumford noted in his book Technics and Civilization, "It is both and instrument of liberation and one of repression."
From:
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen
You shouldn't need an app to understand how to be real. And you shouldn't feel compelled to perform every moment of every day. Nor should we want to live in a world where more and more people cannot distinguish between the real and the unreal.
From:
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen
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