The Internet Is Not The Real World, But It’s Still Meaningful
Wired
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9/1/17
"Looking at a screen is not living. It’s a concentrated decoding operation that requires the keen, exhausting vision of a predator and not the soft focus that allows all doors of perception to swing open… The trick is to read technology instead of being captured by it… Paradoxically, framing the internet as a text to be read, not a life to be led, tends to break, without effort, its spell.”