“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage The relationship between technology and narrative is long-standing. Indeed, some have argued that it is at the heart of human civilization. It was once fashionable to characterize human beings as tool-using animals (although this turns out not to be the best way of getting at whatever might be distinctly human). It has also been suggested […]
L. M. Sacasas reads, thinks, writes, and talks about technology, usually in that order. His writing appears on his blog, The Convivial Society. The best 100 posts from his previous blog have been collected in an e-book, The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology
