PHILOSOPHy

Technology is fundamental to our lives but will form or unravel us as a people. In 20 years, digital tech has proven its inability to self-restrain. On social platforms and handheld devices, our daily marsh is filled with inventions masquerading as friends- tech often presents as a simple tool to make life easier, cleaner, and longer. This is a pernicious mistruth, an ignoble lie. The wilder parts of our humanity like our creativity, our courage, and our communities have been invaded. Like patches of forest that need reclamation, our innovations need renovations before their development comes to an end.

As for my end, I’ll borrow from the ecologist Aldo Leopold. There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These writings are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot…