--- David E Nye, quoted by LM Sacasas in Resistance Is Futile: The Myth of Tech Inevitability, The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 7
Context via Sacasas
Composing a narrative and using a tool are not identical processes, but they have affinities . . . Each requires the imagination of altered circumstances, and in each case beings must see themselves to be living in time. Making a tool immediately implies a succession of events in which one exercises some control over outcomes. Either to tell a story or to make a tool is to adopt an imaginary position outside immediate sensory experience. In each case, one imagines how present circumstances might be made different.
