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When I first started talking with @mattyj612 a couple years ago, it transformed my life.
Through conversations about games and the art of agency, statecraft, Frederick Gardiner, air pumps, leviathans, and lithography, he brought me into dialogue with the history of technologies
We’ve been telling the story of technology backwards. Our tools take center stage, but these artifacts are the lagging indicators of progress, not the drivers.
What propels the world forward is dialogue, a swirling conversation across generations about what it means to be human.
