"Do you want your washing machine [or loom] to be smarter than you?" (Lem Stanislaw, The Washing Machine Tragedy, 1971 (2))
Digital media opens a whole world of opportunities for doing things as perfectly and complexly as we were never able to do before. We can now rid our work of all the little faults that may happen when doing something by hand. We can do so much more in so much less time. We can access machines that were restricted before to modes of mass production and we can ...