Meaningful Integration in Consumer Electronics
The collapse into an emergent new whole, you can appreciate it on the developmental history of the iMac. There you are, sitting on the Apple Store bench, staring at the thing that used to be a fat bulging monitor full of electronics, now beautifully integrated into a sensual thin slab of aluminum. A family of aspects becoming one, that is ontogenesis; birth of concept, of identity, personality, perceived agency.
In the iMac you also appreciate a dynamic of recursion, the technology that lets us do fine things enables technologies that let us do finer things. The increase of precision, bringing new stereal domains at hand, micro- and nanomanipulations, enabling ever more integrated artifacts. In recursion, grasp of the finer aspects of Reality opens a path to grasping even finer aspects of Reality.
✰ ⇢ TNC / Recursivity, Recursion, Mirroring
✎ Connection to
Key / Elements of New Technology Development