benfridge • reading

Technology was "the material form taken by their dreams of immortality and displays why, to fallen humanity, death is the final nemesis of technology." People whose "sense of home is disturbed if denied access to the fragmenting real-time interaction of the internet." "Stepping stones set in the grass, the weight of a door as we pull it, the height of steps. What we build inescapably invites certain actions and people while limiting or even barring access to others." "Whereas God had named Adam, and Adam had named the animals, the peoples of Babel want to be their own authority, which is what is meant by their stated desire to be self-namers."