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| | Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information, by Erik Davis |
 | | As computers, media and telecommunications technology continue to collect, manipulate, store, represent and transmit an ever-increasing flux of data, they are installing nothing less than a new dimension: the space of information. |
 | | In constructing environments that mediate between brains and information space, computer interface designers are already grappling with the phantasmic apparatus of the imagination, for these are questions for the dreaming mind as much as the analytic one. |
 | | Computer interfaces can also be seen as allegorical machinesboth fuse (and confuse) images with abstractions, tend towards baroque complexity, contain magical or hyperdimensional operations, and frequently represent their abstractions spatially. |
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