Over its rise from scientific novelty to market commodity, “digital” is a word that has become synonymous with technocracy and hype, with the profusion of “time- and labor- saving” devices that clutter up our lives and take lifetimes to master. Fascinating yet frustrating, digital technology has revolutionized communications media while leaving many feeling that the world had been made somehow less substantial in the process. Which may have only been inevitable, considering that so much of what once seemed sacrosanct has now been reduced to so much computer code.
D. Eric Bookhardt, The Gambit Weekly (May 4, 2002) New Orleans, LA
