It’s almost as if his desire to use technology was to collapse the process between idea and transmission.
I appreciate a nostalgia for process to some extent. I enjoyed my 200km walk across the mountains Corsica far more than the plane ride from New Mexico to France…
However it’s possible that you can actually become more aware of and participate in the larger process.
Are I here to spend a month hand drawing my logo and refining it, or am I here to build an AI disaster response system to save a million lives?
While I can see the appeal of these sort of arguments, and agree with much of it, I’m not sold on the value of process in itself in the larger arc of the process of creating actual value for the world.