The following appeared on Penny Arcade today. Yup.
It is always dangerous to make assumptions about people’s basic philosophies, and those assumptions tend to (quite conveniently) track with the way you, yourself see the world, so maybe I should limit the scope to myself purely for safety. I tend to think of technology as a force. It’s not so much a physical object as it is a manifested capability. Having serviced technology, and having loved it for years beyond that, and now utterly dependent on it for both my livelihood and leisure, my relationship with it has an (ironically) pre-industrial quality. When I actually think about it, of all the ways it intersects with my being, I wouldn’t know what else to call it but worship. I’m not trying to be a poet. I believe that statement to be accurate.
Of note: the same post also mentioned a “deck of many things.” You get to add an extra pin to your dork vest if you can describe that one (hint: my vest has no more room for any more pins).
