Enlightened

The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the dumb and the grim. Michael Green My pal GK3 introduced me to Michael Green’s book1 which I immediately had to pick up a copy of. If you’re looking for a philosophy text swimming in artwork created back in the 80s on the Mac, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. A digital reproduction is available in full from the Internet Archive, but it’s not the same as having a printed copy to peruse. What this quote makes me worry about is that we’re increasingly not at all lighthearted when it comes to tech, and if so, what does that mean for how we’re making seriously consequential tools that are fundamentally changing our futures? Footnotes Green, Michael. Zen and the Art of the Macintosh: Discoveries on the Path to Computer Enlightenment. Running Press, 1986. 978-0894713477. ↩ Reply via e-mail or follow me at @scottboms@typo.social on Mastodon.

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