{"text":"In 2003, the idea that a music player, a phone, a computer, and a camera would all be the same object small enough to fit in your pocket was a dream worthy of pursuit. In 2023, it isn’t the object that is the problem, it’s the world that object has created around it. It’s a world of perpetual access and persistent distraction, of vamping and voyeurism, of want and waste, of noise and never being alone. That one little object wraps us in an inhuman aura that we are socially-pressured to deny as a luddite metaphor. But *it is there*. It’s invisible, but it may as well be a mechsuit. The world we make *now* is for living like *that*.","title":"Personal Machines and Portable Worlds","author":"chrbutler.com","url":null,"source_url":"https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6nhqgadghm4vfxtc55er6v7","source_type":"article","category":null,"location_type":"offset","location":10760,"note":"在2003年，一个音乐播放器、手机、电脑和相机合而为一，足够小到可以放在口袋里的想法是一个值得追求的梦想。但在2023年，问题不再是这个物体本身，而是这个物体所创造的周围世界。这是一个永久获取和持续分心的世界，一个充斥着虚荣和窥探、贪婪和浪费、噪音和永远不会独处的世界。那个小小的物体将我们包裹在一种非人类的光环中，我们在社会压力下被迫将其否认为卢德主义的隐喻。但它确实存在。它是无形的，但实际上它就像一件机甲套装。我们现在创造的世界就是为了像那样生活。","highlighted_at":"2023-08-09T10:32:17.205047Z","highlight_url":"https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7cxn4n0jsz5q8ww8610vmyc","image_url":"https://blotcdn.com/blog_a7eb7cf1ab024efcb17c380ef69c53f4/_thumbnails/89355de3-3c23-4d84-b817-88325a0ba72e/large.jpg","id":577279090,"user_book_id":30971688,"api_source":null}