Regardless, we have shrouded glitches and the virtual with ethereal qualities that used to be only associated with the supernatural.
I think you might like Ed Finn's book What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing. He talks about similar intersections between magic, spells, imagination, faith, computers, etc.
It seems that the very presence of poorer areas—usually associated with non-White characters—evokes virtual failure
Connection to goldfarming/unauthorized economies as a consistently racist trope of retrofutures?
The game developers have taken part in what almost seems like a controlled demolition within their game world, inserting decay and failure to legitimize their take on cyberpunk
Oh cool, this feels important!
Without there ever being a true, one-to-one duplication of Baran's ideas--without a genuinely decentralized and equal communication network even existing--the beliefs held by the engineers (and in time the public) about what these networks should be were strong enough to make it seem as if the myth was reality.
Fascinating!
Technological disruptions are only complications because the users have issues with them, not because of any objective malfunction
Can the active/passive distinction also align with a creator/user distinction? Is this a difference of consumption vs. creation?