What a lovely and strange essay. I never perceived the technological side as “grief” before, but it really is. People bonding over technologies and proceeding t

What a lovely and strange essay. I never perceived the technological side as “grief” before, but it really is. People bonding over technologies and proceeding to make new technologies, all entwined. So many good connections brought out in here. > When you read oral histories of technology, whether of successes or failures, you sense the yearning of people who want to get back into those rooms for a minute, back to solving the old problems. How should the mouse look? What will people want to do, when we give them these machines? How should a window open? Who wouldn’t want to go back 20 years—to drive again into the office, to sit before the whiteboard in a beanbag chair, in a place of warmth and clarity, and give it another try? OK, wow, that was perceptive.