"To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self."
Tomorrow, we return more fully, in a way, to that harsher natural world as the blog concludes.
But I will say that Letters in Bottles, while it's been an extension of the self, has not been about replacing a natural world through the technological medium of a blog. It's been more about capturing, analyzing, and wondering at the lives that we and others lead in that world. And in turn, a community of sorts has emerged in the chattering, though the bottles have long since floated far out to sea.
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