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Digital Natural Law

David White, Sept 17, 2024

"We imagine there is a Natural Law of Digital," writes David White. "It's a kind of digital Garden of Eden state where everything 'works intuitively' in a manner which releases us to only have to work on things we believe to be authentic and meaningful." The problem with this 'law' is that it doesn't exist. It's "state which none of us would agree on even if we could describe it." The problem, maybe, is that we take digital for granted. A sense of wonder would, well, do wonders: "Of course it's down, do you have any idea of how complex it is? It's a wonder it ever works at all!." We really are living in an age or miracles. But still, people complain.

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