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Two Kinds of Contemporary Technology

We were probably happier when our gadgets only did one thing.

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Samuel D. James
Mar 30, 2022
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Reading this Wall Street Journal article about how some remote workers are deliberately trying to “go analog” reminded me of something I’d thought about a while back ago. There is an important distinction to be made between digital technologies that make the essence of a particular tool more accessible and more valuable, and technologies that radically …

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