Modernity was partially about de-enchanting everything.

· Bits and Bobs 5/13/24

Previously, everything was hand-made, bespoke, a totem of a kind of informal charismatic magic of the creator of the object.

Modernity led to making everything scientific, repeatable, standardized, impersonal.

Microchips put magic back into objects, but a mechanistic kind of magic.

LLMs allow a squishy, organic kind of magic to be put into objects.

What happens when everything you interact with is enchanted?