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Deskilling devices – they make us dumber. We’re immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can’t have that device without everything that goes with it.

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But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character – I had no role in creating him.

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April 25, 2024

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character – I had no role in creating him.

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April 25, 2024

If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can’t have that device without everything that goes with it.

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