Amputations

Self-inflictions for the sake of ease.

Last week, we considered how by extending our senses, technologies change our thinking. They don’t literally re-write how we think in our brains directly, but by giving us a new “grammar,” they do nudge us in different directions. We used the example of learning to think in “car” and how, through learning how to drive, we become one with the car.

When w…