Edward Hopper

One of the problems with technology is that it does nothing to make us believe in ourselves.

Having misled us with its foundational benefit– that we'd have more time for ourselves – the technologies now available usurp time, so that the time we were promised either disappears or is replaced by additional work orders designed to consume the time we were promised.

The situation has something to do with expectation. The expectation is that with technology we can do more than we've ever done in a shorter amount of time, which then frees us to do even more.

Technology is not a black hole, it is the Black Hole.

Another way to assess the situation is to see technology as the ridiculous notion of superior people. There are a lot of these people in San Francisco, brilliant, rich, in love with their lives, and so superior they can't possibly see themselves or how they might appear to others.

The restaurants here are filled with superior people. Watching them talk and text at the same time they're eating and drinking would almost be amusing if I didn't suspect they were also doing business, filling all the new time they've helped make with more of what's expected of them.

Sometimes I feel like Edward Hopper, in that I'm on the outside looking in. All I have is myself, and I wonder if it's enough. I know it's very old-fashioned to feel this way, but I'll try my best to make something of it by using technology.