“Through technology we become estranged to ourselves. Then through continued use of that technology, we find ourselves anew.”

What I’m now realizing (thanks Sara!) is that the both the luddite criticism of technology and the transhumanist critique of “human nature”, both of which I am paradoxically attracted to, is softened by this adaptive technology hypothesis. I do not like technology because it distances me from myself, but I’m enamored by the idea of becoming renewed. With technology viewed in an adaptive context I can have it both ways.

Thanks for these fruitful thoughts and the visual media. You’ve help me connect a lot of dots.