Thesis 27
Everyware is structurally latent in several emerging technologies.
The seemingly ineluctable logic of connection is not the only one driving the emergence of everyware. There is another type of determinism at work here, as well, harder to substantiate but no less real.
There must still be those, somewhere, who would insist that all technologies come into being neutral and uninflected, freely available for any use whatsoever. But ever since McLuhan, it's been a little difficult to take such a view seriously. A more nuanced stance would be that technologies do contain inherent potentials, gradients of connection. Each seems to fit into ...
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