T: Technology

Death by convenience…

virtual reality — a “virtue” is a thing that re-orders your consciousness. So a virtual “reality” is a paradigm where the external world is digitally malleable and can imprint on you. The world, made of nothing but light, is a product of the creator’s virtues, too.

The only way to survive the century of Faust is self-awareness; if you don’t have clear virtues or the ability to know if technology is aligned with your values, you’re bound to get hijacked by awe, convenience, and emotion.

Very impressed by ButterDocs, so far, mostly because it treats a paragraph as an intelligent object:

• Version history: using a document-level version history is clunky. ButterDocs let’s you look back within each paragraph to find older iterations. Knowing this exists, I might be more likely to rewrite whole paragraphs.

• Alternate paragraphs: you can fo

Reaction to the Daylight tablet (hook: the computer, de-invented):

I’m intrigued. Even if it were a perfect device, it’s missing a key dimension of an analog device: mess. Maybe it reduces distractions and captures the tactility of a pen, but it’s still an “everything machine.” It removes the useful and awareness-inducing clutter of physical books a