Laura Huang

Men seek in play the difficulties and demands—both intellectual and physical—they no longer find in work.

Today, when we have extended all parts of our bodies and senses by technology, we are haunted by the need for an outer consensus of technology and experience that would raise our communal lives to the level of a world-wide consensus. When we have achieved a world-wide fragmentation, it is not unnatural to think about a world-wide integration.

War and the fear of war have always been considered the main incentives to technological extension of our bodies.

As work is replaced by the sheer movement of information, money as a store of work merges with the informational forms of credit and credit card. From coin to paper currency, and from currency to credit card there is a steady progression toward commercial exchange as the movement of information itself.

To behold, use or perceive any extension of ourselves in technological form is necessarily to embrace it.