Computers Are a Feeling
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/computers-are-a-feeling/
Category: rant
<p>Exploring <a href="https://diagram.website" >diagram.website</a>, I came across <a href="https://github.com/timhwang/nyrc/blob/main/NYRC%201%20-%20The%20Computer%20is%20a%20Feeling.md" >The Computer is a Feeling</a> by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan:</p> <blockquote> <p> the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our imagination. The internet and its commercial power has sculpted the computer-device. It's become the terrain of flat, uniform, common platforms and protocols, not eccentric, local, idiosyncratic ones. </p> </blockquote> <p>Before computers were connected together, they were primarily personal. Once connected, they became primarily social. The purpose of the computer shifted to become social <em>over</em> personal.</p> <blockquote>