It has been about creating the possibility of a world with less human interaction. This tendency is, I suspect, not a bug, it’s a feature. We might think Amazon was about making books available to us that we couldnt find locally and it was, and what a brilliant idea, but maybe it was also just as much about eliminating human contact
Former Talking Heads frontman says consumer tech is working against what it means to be human
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608580/eliminating-the-human/
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