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Reaching the Enchanted Forest
What if we could return a spark of life to our drab surroundings, drawing on our ancient knowledge to build a world that is more humane?
The stuff that isn’t connected to my phone—the stupid toaster that doesn’t know when to stop, the water fountain in the park that is randomly turned off on hot days, the fiddly running watch—provide their own unique friction. There’s horror in the early 21st century vision of a fully networked planet, constantly monitored by swarms of sensors that report back to central servers. We will have to create an entire new theory of human-computer interaction, where intelligence is dispersed across our environment instead of centralized in all-in-one devices, locked away behind a network, or diverted from our overstretched attention.
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