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Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenous and standardized. They possess us more than we possess them. Everyone’s iPhones look the same, but the Pokedex and Digivice were unique (as I recall) to each owner. They had funky, geometric forms and garish cases and buttons. They weren’t just flat glass touchscreens.
The Dream of the Personal Machine
Kyle Chayka
I realised that writing isn’t about beating the competition, or being the *only* piece of work out there on a subject. Instead, an indicator of real progress within our industry — or in any aspect of human knowledge — stems from a diverse collective of people sharing their experiences of what they’ve learned, which then hopefully makes it easier for others to walk the same path in the future.
Read Widely, Apply Selectively, Share Regardless
James Stanier
Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can amplify a signal, like putting static over a photograph too faint to be seen can make it visible, and [human perception already makes good use of this](https://interconnected.org/home/2020/12/15/omens)
Dowsing Is a Technology for Intuition Amplification
Matt Webb
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