The more we seek control through the powerful tools and allure of digital media, the less we exercise and grow in our capacity to negotiate those real-life relationships that are so often not in our control. And as the iron cage of rationality continually works to strip human encounters of their unpredictability, inefficiencies, and intangible qualities that defy quantification and reification, it deprives us of having to experience all the quirky and wondrously surprising aspects of human beings.
