Windows and the Mac Os radically altered the course of human cognition for the common person, and much more severely for those deeply involved with these technologies.

I know for a simple reason: I watched both be born, and learned them as they were introduced.

Exposure to these technologies and the applications they support is more powerful and enstructuring to the common relational aspects of cognition, and relation… than nearly any other post-childhood influence I have ever seen. My own early exposure to software such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop radically altered the way I thought… not about art… about everything. About meaning. Relation. Structure. In some ways, my own perspectives were ‘reforged’ in the images of metaphors from computing experience.

No one warned us about this for a simple reason: no one knew that exposure to computing technology was and remains almost as powerful as exposure to a pseudo-mechanical nonhuman culture fundamentally based upon tokenization, imagery, compulsion, and structural effulgence.

They re-made our minds with toys. And our minds took on the image of their makers…