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Where Marconi’s human operators had been appendages to a motionless machine, the device that I now grasped was a liberating extension of my mobile body. [describing the infrastructure needed for the first intercontinental telegraph versus a mobile phone]
We had become inseparable from our increasingly capable electronic organs; our very limbs had become fleshy antenna supports; our interconnections had ramified and intensified to an almost incomprehensible degree. From prenatal imaging and heartbeat monitoring to posthumous persistence of our digital addresses and traces, our bodies now existed in a state of continuous electronic engagement with their surroundings.
It makes more sense to recognize that invisible, intangible, electromagnetically encoded information establishes new types of relationships among physical events occurring in physical places. A bit is indeed a “difference that makes a difference,” but we should think of that difference as something concrete, with definite spatial and temporal coordinates...
can minecraft similarly be said to have a decoding/encoding process that's very visible? -- seen in mcrp?
do something on purpose to provoke interesting reactions -- the object is a component in making conversation. y'know, this might not be a Correct application of the theory but it is kind of how i think about writing fic. put meaning in, see what other people pull from it, this is the joy