Last week, Ian Bogost wrote the best piece I've read in a while about software's so-called consumption of the world and a more recent frontier of its advancement: objects that have no clear business connecting to the internet, such as toasters and garden hoses. Bogost observes that we don't need to wait for some Singularity event or runaway AI takeover; computing has already effectively conquered the world, often in more subtle, prosaic forms, and we voluntarily place more activities under software's purview all the time. “Today, people don’t seek out computers in order to get things done; they do the things that let them use computers."
#28: The Fiberoptic Freeway
#28: The Fiberoptic Freeway
#28: The Fiberoptic Freeway
Last week, Ian Bogost wrote the best piece I've read in a while about software's so-called consumption of the world and a more recent frontier of its advancement: objects that have no clear business connecting to the internet, such as toasters and garden hoses. Bogost observes that we don't need to wait for some Singularity event or runaway AI takeover; computing has already effectively conquered the world, often in more subtle, prosaic forms, and we voluntarily place more activities under software's purview all the time. “Today, people don’t seek out computers in order to get things done; they do the things that let them use computers."