Thingway: Analogue Modernism, and Untying Everyone From the Damned Desk
I hate computer. You hate computer. We all hate computer.
More specifically modern subscription-based, or “Free” (definitely not data harvesting) tools made available almost exclusively via the web for a computer (the phone’s are indeed included), but i digress.
Whether it be a website, cloud service, social app or horrifically specific tool, particularly the sort a business, school or university forced upon you. Whichever it is. In your heart, you hate them. Even if you’ve deluded yourself into loving them. You don’t. You just can’t live without them. There is a difference.
This is both the pickle and the proverbial rock staring us down from opposite the hard place.
“This”, includes but is by no means limited to everything from Instagram, to Docs, Notion, YouTube, the Office suite (and even “AI” to an extent, not that we should be calling it that) and all such similar tools and...
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