such a nice fancy sounding word for something that is so great & powerful but which also is a vast anti-Enlightenment force. we used to see the world about us, could monkey with things about us. butnhugh tech goods are deeply resistant to observation & understanding. what used to be apparent & ooen for interaction has become like magic to us, and we, humans, thr toolmakers, understand & see less of our ephemeralizing infrastructure & tools.
also ephemeralizes systems are often high capable, valuable resources that only big powers in the world can afford or operate well, much less build or develop. this lends to empheralized technology being more prescriptive, typically. it is general & adaptive & highly capable but rarely do we see examples of that power being opened & expressed to random people coming into a shop off the street, or to random consumers: consumers are given a crafted experience, a set of flows carved out of the more capable generalized ephemeralizes systems.
Thought experiment: replace ‘ephemeral’ silicon based technology with what we know of biology, which at the small scale is far more advanced than anything humans have created.
The fact that bio is so information theory intelligible only increases its ability to ‘blend into the background’ and ‘become ephemeral’.
(E.g. your body is constantly creating and destroying iron nanocrystals in protein cages we can’t synthesize to regulate the amount of iron ions involved in constructing a proton potential to move muscles.)
also ephemeralizes systems are often high capable, valuable resources that only big powers in the world can afford or operate well, much less build or develop. this lends to empheralized technology being more prescriptive, typically. it is general & adaptive & highly capable but rarely do we see examples of that power being opened & expressed to random people coming into a shop off the street, or to random consumers: consumers are given a crafted experience, a set of flows carved out of the more capable generalized ephemeralizes systems.