In the New York Times novelist Charles Yu, author of the hilarious, tragic, brain-melting How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, recounts his experience falling in love with technology.
A private channel had opened up, a vast network of channels, connecting the inside of my head with the insides of other heads. And that network became part of my inner cartography. It changed my map of reality. The physical world gained a new dimension, intangible but no less real.
But even the lustiest of romances fizzle out sometimes. Yu asks us to consider, how can we be in love with a thing that merely coddles us?
