“Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.”
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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
