“The unimaginable poverty of our modern lives, leads, rather naturally, to our being captured by technologies. Much of our ‘ordinary lives’ are so bereft of novelty, meaningful roles and relationships, that a dead-inside object, the ‘smartphone’, easily captures this and becomes the focal point of our attention, and the thief that steals our dreams, privacy and potential… for the sake of advertising, war, corporations, surveillance … and the intensification of our isolation… dressed up as participation. In what? The ghosts of our human natures, intelligences, love, heroism, creativity and wonder.”

— infraheard