Diagonal diagonal.substack.com

Weekly notes on the history and future of technology from the desk of Diana Kimball Berlin.

The handwaves were soft and acceptable
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In a hyperdimensional world
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The illusion of narrative continuity
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Perfection is a security blanket
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The impasses are still there, they’re just more interesting
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The idea of the idea file
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Or everyone else will start having new feelings
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Conflict is the art
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Hearing the printer humming while warming up
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A combination of playful and intimidating
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It shatters into glass dust
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Getting past the moment of ugliness
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Smudged together into the same tone
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Well now it’s your beloved trash heap
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Time simply produces events
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The feeling I want to see if I can create
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I am soft-hearted, but have had to steel myself
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Flawed inventions and flawed inventors
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Someday I’ll make the stars flicker
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Now at last I know how I flew
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