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Metaphors We Live By: Book X: Technology, Reality, & Simulation
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Series: Metaphors We Live by, Book 10
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ISBN13: 9798199403474
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Book X
Metaphors We Live By: Technology, Reality, & Simulation
The screen feels like a window.
It is not a window.
It is a surface designed to feel like one.
Curated, optimized, and shaped by systems whose interests are not identical to yours.
What appears through it is not the world.
Metaphors We Live By: Technology, Reality, & Simulation
The screen feels like a window.
It is not a window.
It is a surface designed to feel like one.
Curated, optimized, and shaped by systems whose interests are not identical to yours.
What appears through it is not the world.
It is a rendering of the world, edited for engagement, and mistaken daily for reality. Metaphors We Live By: Technology, Reality, & Simulation is a collection of forty essays examining how digital environments reshape attention, identity, and the experience of what is real.
Inside, you will explore:
This is not a critique of technology.
This is not a case for disconnection. It is a series of observations about the invisible architecture of digital life. How it was designed, how it behaves, and what it quietly costs in attention, depth, and contact with the actual.
For those who use these tools daily.
Or who have started to wonder what the tools are doing in return.
Inside, you will explore:
- Why the tool you use long enough eventually reshapes the hand that holds it
- How the profile becomes easier to maintain than the person behind it
- Why outrage is not a natural frequency but a structurally induced one
- How convenience accumulates a signature in behavior before anyone notices
- Why the body knows what the screen forgets
- What the algorithm knows about your past. And what it cannot know about you
This is not a critique of technology.
This is not a case for disconnection. It is a series of observations about the invisible architecture of digital life. How it was designed, how it behaves, and what it quietly costs in attention, depth, and contact with the actual.
For those who use these tools daily.
Or who have started to wonder what the tools are doing in return.
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