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An often overlooked factor of the integration of media with life is the ability to analyze technology as both the process through which it is created as well as the implications of is use and inclusion in daily activities. Following the first wave of digital technologies with the turn of the millennium that introduced computers to normalized household usage, one could consider the current decade as a second wave in digital history that marks full normalization and mobilization of computer devices. What was once script on a screen that requires human interpretation has since developed into computers that resemble and perform like human, simultaneously simplifying and complexifying one’s day, which humans become increasingly dependent on. In Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic Literature, John Cayley focuses on reading and how electronic technologies have reduced the need for humans to read, and potentially the need to learn how to read, because we have electronics that rea...
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