Gamers & Gambling addicts simply want to stay in the game comfortable in a pattern with other things shut out pg 226

 

Overstimulated seek worlds whose constraints create Pure Space with nothing but its demands ie Gambling Addicts pg 226

 

For many people the metaphor of addiction feels like the only possible way to describe what is going on pg 226

 

Looking to Games for amusement one thing Looking to them for Life another Alone we Imagine ourselves together pg 226

 

Why deprive ourselves of voice communication? texting & email hide as much as we show we can process people quickly pg 207

 

Making an avatar and texting Pretty much the same You're creating your own person; It's your little twin on the Internet pgs 191-2

A text is better than a call there is less “boundness” to the person so you cannot say or learn too much pg190

 

In early days of Cubism simultaneous presentation of many perspectives of the human face was subversive pgs 63-4

 

Singularity as Technological Rapture 

70's animal v computer kind of life now animal v computer kind of love pgs 25 &28

 

Wired into Existence through tech, beyond a mirror of the mind, new state of self emerges from new devices pg 16

 

We are looking to the network to defend us against loneliness by controlling the intensity of our connections. pg 13

 

Reading

Alone Together

why we expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technological Promiscuity - people considering robots as pets, potential friends, confidants and romantic partners. Attaching to the inanimate without prejudice.pg10

by Sherry Turkle