enowning
Sunday, July 01, 2007
 
I phone, your ring tones, all remain alone.
[T]echnolust has nothing to do with rationality. It's all about instant gratification and the absurd belief that devices can make us happy. We are all, as Keynes famously said, the slaves of some defunct philosopher. In the case of the iPhone, the sage is Heidegger, who said that 'technology is the art of arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it'.
 
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