Time, Technology, and History

Disjointed Reflections on the Rise of Homo Interreticulatus

Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
[But, where there is danger, that which saves is also growing.]
—Friedrich Hölderlin, Patmos

[Bear with me a moment. I am searching for a grandly portentous beginning. It should take only a moment.

Ah. Got it—]

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There are historical “sciences,” in the older sense of that word: approved methods, that is, for th…