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Matter(s)

Matter(s) 128 128 The primordial analog world. The novel digital world. Two canonical poles in a quint- essential dualism. Like the Cartesian body-mind schism, however, the digital-analog divide is a false dichotomy, an exaggerated classifying and calcifying of human exis- Chad Kraus, Issue Editor tence. David Sax argues that the “real world isn’t black or white. It is not even gray. University of Kansas Reality is multicolored, infinitely textured, and emotionally layered...The best ideas emerge from that complexity, which remains beyond the capability of digital technol- ogy to fully appreciate. The real world matters, now more than ever.” On the other hand, adopting Edward Fredkin’s understanding of the digital, humans have never lived in a non-digital world; instead, all matter, at its essence, is digital—that is, matter composed of microscopic representations of binary state information. Perhaps the dichotomy no longer holds any value, as the authors of “The Birth of Digital” argue. “[D]igital technologies are becoming so finely ingrained into the physical world that it will soon make no sense to separate the ‘physical world’ and the ‘virtual world.’” According to Klaus Schwab, a series of technological advances have shaped human civilization over the past several centuries: the first Industrial http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Technology Architecture + Design Taylor & Francis

Matter(s)

Kraus, Chad
Technology Architecture + Design , Volume 4 (2): 2 – Jul 2, 2020
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Matter(s)

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128 128 The primordial analog world. The novel digital world. Two canonical poles in a quint- essential dualism. Like the Cartesian body-mind schism, however, the digital-analog divide is a false dichotomy, an exaggerated classifying and calcifying of human exis- Chad Kraus, Issue Editor tence. David Sax argues that the “real world isn’t black or white. It is not even gray. University of Kansas Reality is multicolored, infinitely textured, and emotionally layered...The best ideas...
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128 128 The primordial analog world. The novel digital world. Two canonical poles in a quint- essential dualism. Like the Cartesian body-mind schism, however, the digital-analog divide is a false dichotomy, an exaggerated classifying and calcifying of human exis- Chad Kraus, Issue Editor tence. David Sax argues that the “real world isn’t black or white. It is not even gray. University of Kansas Reality is multicolored, infinitely textured, and emotionally layered...The best ideas emerge from that complexity, which remains beyond the capability of digital technol- ogy to fully appreciate. The real world matters, now more than ever.” On the other hand, adopting Edward Fredkin’s understanding of the digital, humans have never lived in a non-digital world; instead, all matter, at its essence, is digital—that is, matter composed of microscopic representations of binary state information. Perhaps the dichotomy no longer holds any value, as the authors of “The Birth of Digital” argue. “[D]igital technologies are becoming so finely ingrained into the physical world that it will soon make no sense to separate the ‘physical world’ and the ‘virtual world.’” According to Klaus Schwab, a series of technological advances have shaped human civilization over the past several centuries: the first Industrial

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Published: Jul 2, 2020

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