Technology externalizes the informational parts of us — what grows in the space left?
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-09-30
Clare Birch offers a philosophical take: humans are part-information, and much technology is about externalizing those informational parts, which then build a world we grow up in. She asks: when externalization frees up space in us, what grows there — and can we become irreducibly human?
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