Reads tagged with “technology”
The Möbius Strip of Remembering and Forgetting: Teju Cole on How the Paradox of Photography Clarifies the Central Anxiety of Existence
“Photography is at the nerve center of our paradoxical memorial impulses: we need it there for how it helps us frame our losses, but we can also sense it crowding in on ongoing experience, imposing closure on what should still be open.”
It from Bit: Pioneering Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Information, the Nature of Reality, and Why We Live in a Participatory Universe
“All things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe… Observer-participancy gives rise to information.”
Swifter Than a Bird Flies: An Astonishing Account of Riding the First Passenger Train and How the Invention of Railroads Changed Human Consciousness
“When I closed my eyes this sensation of flying was quite delightful, and strange beyond description.”
The Evolution of the Book, Animated
From stretched animal skins to metal alloys to pixels, an inquiry into what makes a book.
The Annihilation of Space and Time: Rebecca Solnit on How Muybridge Froze the Flow of Existence, Shaped Visual Culture, and Changed Our Consciousness
“Before, every face, every place, every event, had been unique, seen only once and then lost forever among the changes of age, light, time. The past existed only in memory and interpretation, and the world beyond one’s own experience was mostly stories.”
How the Bit Was Born: Claude Shannon and the Invention of Information
“Information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principle … transforming every branch of knowledge.”
How Horses Civilized Humanity, Shrank the Distance of Love, and Shaped the Way We Conduct Our Romantic Relationships
“People no longer conducted romances as they did before… The horse revamped the limits of our personal freedom.”
Aristotle’s Aperture: An Animated History of Photography, from the Camera Obscura to the Camera Phone
…and how a greedy attitude to intellectual property made the camera’s primary competitor perish.
George Eliot on Leisure and Our Greatest Source of Restlessness
“Even idleness is eager now… Old Leisure was quite a different personage… Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure.”
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