COMMENTARY
Siri Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want
In our alone-but-together-all-the-time world, perhaps we can’t help but anthropomorphize our devices because they really do seem to think and act like humans, and goodness knows we need community. Ours is a disenchanted world stripped of meaning – where all people are independent, isolated masters-of-their-fate. You can see how these (anything but) benign devices and all they offer could become our friends, even our mentors. We like to imagine ourselves in the image of our devices. But doesn’t it seem ironic that the most glorious future we can contemplate as humans (or sapiens) doesn’t have us in it? Read the rest>>>>>>