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instead of being an artificial intelligence, I was an intelligent artifice,
Visitors from all over the world arrived as if on a pilgrimage, looking for something that may never have existed.
Unfortunately for me, I liked my inefficient life. I liked listening to the radio and cooking with excessive utensils; slivering onions, detangling wet herbs. Long showers and stoned museum-wandering. I liked riding public transportation: watching strangers talk to their children; watching strangers stare out the window at the sunset, and at photos of the sunset on their phones. I liked taking long walks to purchase onigiri in Japantown, or taking long walks with no destination at all. Folding the laundry. Copying keys. Filling out forms. Phone calls. I even liked the post office, the
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Addiction was a generational epidemic; it was devastating.
“We already call our customers ‘users.’”
Hacking apparently no longer meant circumventing the state or speaking truth to power; it just meant writing code.
Everything was simultaneously happening in real time and preserved for posterity, in perpetuity.
Homogeneity was a small price to pay for the erasure of decision fatigue.
“A whole new generation of technologists will do an end run around our whole system,”
structural inequality
Tech, for the most part, wasn’t progress. It was just business.
