2.04.2004
Reaction (all it is, really) to etoys, etc.
Where's KMFDM? (It was the lego army, probably.) Anyway:
As wholly unsophisticated and hyperbolic as this is, etoy, Toy War, etc., inspires me with a pointed desire to have been old in whichever year that was and have a head for technological misbehaviour extended beyond the workings of Macintoshes. Nostelgia (which I'm sure is misspelled), that's what it is: I want to don the trappings again, reload all of the mysteriously lost information. Like the old media languages, it fades with neglect.
It's a whole different language, a "middle" language, perhaps, go-between between humans and computers as medieval Middle English was a transition between incomprehensible Old English and BBC crispness. Will we, in ultimate Zen, digress (evolve?) into the lowest level; speak and think in binary?
As wholly unsophisticated and hyperbolic as this is, etoy, Toy War, etc., inspires me with a pointed desire to have been old in whichever year that was and have a head for technological misbehaviour extended beyond the workings of Macintoshes. Nostelgia (which I'm sure is misspelled), that's what it is: I want to don the trappings again, reload all of the mysteriously lost information. Like the old media languages, it fades with neglect.
It's a whole different language, a "middle" language, perhaps, go-between between humans and computers as medieval Middle English was a transition between incomprehensible Old English and BBC crispness. Will we, in ultimate Zen, digress (evolve?) into the lowest level; speak and think in binary?
