Communication Prosthetics: Threat or Menace? by Neal Stephenson

Author:Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unbekannt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CPs are about abdication of judgment. If you are writing a document on a manual typewriter, you are forced to make choices. If you are penning a sonnet in Elizabethan London, you must think very hard before you touch your ink-laden bird feather to that sheet of expensive paper. If you are trying to get 100 musicians to play your symphony, you had better have your ducks in a row before you walk into the hall with an armload of scores. If you are turning a huge block of marble into a sculpture, you'd best know exactly what you are about before you let fly with that hammer. But in the world of CPs, paper is free, musicians are synthesized robots who never complain, and blocks of marble are endowed with unlimited Undo. It creates the illusion that the nasty, old-fashioned requirement to make all those damned choices has been done away with.

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