Techno-intellectuals Babble
Soft toothbrushes in Japan are *really* soft. I like them.
I just started reading The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, and started with Telepistemology: Descartes’s Last Stand by Hubert L. Dreyfus. The first paragraph details a disembodied future mediated by the internet/communication technologies and tells us we are getting closer and closer to such a future (natch). To pull a quote:
“When we are engaged in such activities [reading news, shopping, talking to friends, doing reseach], our bodies seem irrelevant and, thanks to telepresence, our minds seem to expand to all corners of the universe.”
Uhm, irrelevant bodies my ass. Mr. Dreyfus has obviously not had the pleasure of sitting on a plastic crate covered with a yoga mat for 5+ hours of computing time. My body has never been more relevant, or I so painfully aware of it (this is also due to the bruises from a grappling match post-viewing of the Ultimate Fighting Championships… grar!).