Workshop notes

Every technology is magic until we get used to it.

A rotary-phone user would have called the camera in your pocket magic. We forgot that fast.

Acclimating is what lets us live with new technology. It's also what makes us forget how contingent it is. The iPhone camera took thirty years of sensor R&D that almost didn't pay off. Civilian GPS only exists because a plane got shot down and Reagan declassified the system.

Magech is a workshop for tinkering with tech and AI without taking the magic for granted.

The Workshop · Sections May, MMXXVI