The Seattle Central Library: Civic Architecture in the Age of Media

摘要

Current technological devices are changing our understanding of time and space. Most importantly, they are changing the way we expect to experience time and space. Our lives and cities have continually been redefined by innovation, making it hard to argue which technology (mercantile, automobile, digital, etc.) has had the most impact. Yet, we are at a point of significant inversion, where many technologies are becoming more active than their users. As Simone Weil has suggested, technology now "is the thing that thinks, and it is the man who is reduced to the state of the thing."