Vision Con - by L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture, both understood broadly. I had been working on another essay titled “Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology,” and I mentioned in a couple of places that it was on its way. That piece is almost ready, but I found myself over the past few days wanting to say a few things about Apple’s mixed reality headset, Vision Pro, which became available last week. So that’s what you have here. The secularization of the religion of technology piece will be out next week. I trust you are all well. As always, welcome to new subscribers, glad you made your way here. Here’s an analogy for your consideration. Just as physical density bends time, so does information density bend the experience of time. (Disclaimer: I’m not a physicist and don’t pretend to understand general relativity.) What I’m trying to get at with this possibly suspect analogy is that when digital media compresses the amount of information we encou

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture, both understood broadly. I had been working on another essay titled “Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology,” and I mentioned in a couple of places that it was on its way. That piece is almost ready, but I found myself over the past few days wanting to say a few things about Apple’s mixed reality headset, Vision Pro, which became available last week. So that’s what you have here. The secularization of the religion of technology piece will be out next week. I trust you are all well. As always, welcome to n