What is wonder now?

I’m writing this a couple of days before Apple’s big conference, and it should go out shortly after. This is deliberate. I want to be proven wrong here. I want you to read this and laugh at how wrong I was. I want this text to come from a whole other dimension.

Tech won, right? It is here, all around us. If it weren’t for tech, you wouldn’t be reading this. I’m writing this from a park in Bucktown, across from the trail, a few doors down from a fitnessy yoga studio. Half the people around me have Apple Watches; all are using iPhones, one way or another. As I type this on my iPad, the text syncs to my iPhone, and then a server somewhere, allowing me to save it as I go. That is a miracle.

There are so many miracles like this. Most of my coupled friends found each other through technology. We find community through technology. We feel safe & ease into ourselves through technology. Human connection is one of the most important things in the world, and it has never been easier in human history. We find actualization through technology. Technology has stoked new labor movements, toppled authoritarian governments, and expanded the limits of human consciousness.

We magnify the bad in existence, so I’m deliberately spending some time dwelling on what’s good. But one thing that we’ve come to learn is that there is no such thing as an unconditional good. There are tradeoffs, systemic consequences, winners, losers.