Cybernetics, Friction

Man-machine interface, pilot + ipad Better synthesis when you can understand your machine better

decay of the physical interface correlated with frictionless systems? Physical world is still full of friction.

Cybernetics as a mode of balance, humans sharing cognitive and information load with machines. Out of balance is not good/enjoyable.

On how drone warfare is accessible, leading to influx of children + capital. Will get stuck writing about Baudrillard and simulation/simulacra again, but there’s something to be said about the price of an abstraction. Very physical demand to exiting reality or substituting the self. See ecological damage from fiber optic cables in war in Ukraine.

Flying a Cessna 172 w/ an ipad on the knee is perfect level of abstraction, right amount of man/machine synthesis. Anymore and we start what?

But as Kurt Vonnegut said in 1995, aren’t the annoyances we’re racing to erase the very things that make life feel real?