@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... i strongly doubt theres as much of a sense of imbuement there

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... tbh i feel smartphones are extremely impersonal devices, riddled with software that we have no control over. few people are really imbuing their phones with themselves, they rarely feel a sense of loss from the physical loss of the phone. maybe they worry, they dread not having backups, etc. but most people toss their phones frequently and transfer all the data to the new one. the thing is highly impersonal

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... like a sweater given to you by a loved one, that which, when lost, can't really be replaced by simply buying another one, because this other one wasn't given you by the loved one, wasn't acquired with the intentions and thoughts of that loved one, didn't go through life with you like the other one did. it may be functionally identical but its not the same one

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... i think reading "personal" in the same sense that one talks about "personal" journals vs. say scientific journals

its a place you keep your personal, private, intimate thoughts, a thing imbued with a part of you by your hand and mind. not merely owned and operated by you, but transformed by you in a way that only you can transform it

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... stuff from Ted Nelson (both the big Computer Lib/Dream Machines duology, and The Home Computer Revolution), the Homebrew Computer Club, the People's Computer Company

they were drenched in this vision of the computer as not just a device, but as an extension of your self

@nprofile1q... ah see i grew up on the 90s scifi show version

@nprofile1q... i havent but it looks like a revival of that style and i therefore love it

but where's the guy who talks to animals?!

anyway, the futurismo of these shows, and the sincerity of their aspirationalism within that futurish setting, is what makes it so very TNG to me

it feels almost imaginable that someone in 1992 could express pride in winning American Gladiator, as if that were a genuine accomplishment on par with winning an Olympic gold medal

i can't see anyone feeling similarly about WipeOut or its ilk

and so i think that's why this kind of cringey camp futurismo versions of these kinds of shows went away and were replaced by goofball comedy versions

caring about the future, even your own personal future, and honestly believing you can improve it is cringe, don't you know? the future can't be better, don't be so naive and childish to think you can do things, don't be a rube!