Replying to Avatar Cory Doctorow

But peering inside these sealed packages reveals another world, a miniature land where things get simpler - and more complex. Inside these blobs of resin are snips of wire, plugs of wax, simple screws, fine sheets of metal in stacks, wafers of plain ceramic, springs and screws.

10/
Avatar
Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Truly, quantity has a quality all its own. Miniaturize these assemblies and produce them at unimaginable scale and the simple, legible components turn into mystical black boxes that only the most dedicated study can reveal. Like every magician's trick, the unfathomable effect is built up through the precise repetition of something very simple.

11/

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
Cory Doctorow 2y ago

A prolonged study of *Open Circuits* reveals something important about the #HackerAesthetic, a collection of graphic design, fashion and industrial design conventions that begins with this realization: that the crisp lines of digital logic can be decomposed into blobby, probabilistic lumps of metal, plastic, and even wax.

12/