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The Uncanny Valley of Anxiety
I think when we talk about the underlying anxiety or the catastrophizing or the claustrophobia, that is quite typical. It's impossible not to assess or confront digital technology's role in that. And I think again, it comes back to our relationship to ourselves, which all of these things do. The Rudolf Steiner says that technology is thought poured into mineral. A lot of us don't even like to sit for 10 minutes with a concept, so we get pulled into the info sphere and just constantly bouncing around information. We're so used to striking out into the world to find and create what we need.