The Questions Concerning Technology An Essay by L.M. Sarcasas theconvivialsociety.substack.com What sort of person will the use of this technology make of me? What will the use of this technology encourage me to notice? Does the use of this technology bring me joy? What limits does the use of this technology impose upon me? Upon what systems, technical or human, does my use of this technology depend? Are these systems just? technologyethicscollections
This language without words There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought. I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening with people. He was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them. He realized: If I can learn to understand the language without words, I can learn to understand the world. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist The quality without a name language