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Beyond the impact on the city, if we outsource everything to automated systems what do we lose as humans? (10)
Moments of friction act as critical punctuation in our experience of the world. We are bumped into awareness of others by them. They orient us within our environments and signpost our limits. These punctuations are generally what affords us the opportunity for continued adaptation, without them we will atrophy.
(11) (12)11. Friction as vital experiential punctuation
11. See: Ashby, An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956) LINK
12. “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the pushbutton finger.”
Frank Lloyd Wright, during a lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, reported in Newsweek on May 16, 1955.