Description
We are living in a passage. Behind us, the civilization of print - shaped by the slowness of books, the permanence of ink, the authority of the page. Before us, the civilization of digital - liquid, instantaneous, coded, where words are streams and ideas circulate as data. Between the two, there is no clear border, only a threshold. In these texts, I write from that threshold. I write as a human who is no longer fully of the world of print, and not yet entirely of the world of code. I ask what it means to inhabit this fragile in-between: how we live, how we think, how we build together, when one civilization fades and another emerges. What becomes of truth when anyone can publish, and visibility depends more on attention than on accuracy? What becomes of democracy when authority is distributed, when sortition and algorithms compete with the old structures of representation? What becomes of our sense of community when anonymity protects freedom but dissolves identity, when contributions matter more than names? From Ink to Code is not a manifesto, but a series of reflections, fragments, attempts to grasp the contours of this transition. It is an invitation to step onto the threshold with me, to read, to question, to disagree, to search - because what is at stake is not only technology, but the very way we understand ourselves as humans within a shifting civilization.
On Bearing Witness
