Protosynthesis
Technological Term (v — pro-TO-sin-tha-sis)
The integration of presentation and operation as a means of delivering better functionality.
Designers make nifty buttons and pictures that look great, but are hard to use.
Coders make programs that require the user to remember obscure facts about the system.
Hardware manufacturers design equipment that have no universal standards.
Good technology uses the arrangement (design) of program elements (code) and physical parts (hardware) to extend the user’s ability with the least amount of stress on the user.
Helvetica
You design
your lines to
catch my mind and
trap my eye
inside your
Helvetica holds my ideas
when it is
not there
you are empty.
I write, therefore I am
I write, or perhaps you read to prove my person. But more rightly, I write to prove my belief in you. Without speaking out of our own minds, we cannot agree to the existence of each other — and without that agreement, what is there but solitude?
Solitude, in fact is the only thing that can exist within us, save belief. In belief we find that we call out to that which we do not know, but hold to be evident. In belief we hold outside of ourselves those facts that matter to our own existence as we see it, and in fact instill in those things we believe, our own selves.
Yet, the error in ourselves can be, but not always is, to believe that what we hold outside ourselves is in some way created or manifest by us rather than beheld and apprehended around us.
As you behold those things internally that are at the same time external to yourself, and that you do consider the Truth — remember that these things, made real outside of your own mortality, must stand of their own accord and be capable of instructing and changing you — not merely to sit idolatrously idle and be fed by our own will that they exist. Each thing that is not manifest in your mind from your own will must, in its essence, stand apart from you and teach you according to its own nature.
To apprehend that which is around you, in which you can place belief, and recognize that those things are beyond your own will to create, and outside of your own mind to shape through belief, is to apprehend a Truth that stands apart from you and wills to affect you.
The things around you that receive your belief are not to be swayed by what you choose for them, but in fact will sway you more greatly — and in that, we find the nature of our own error — that by believing in the unswaying nature of Truth, we in some way surrender the power of our own selves, and perhaps through that conflict, enter into our own mortality. But I assure you, that the only connection we have to the infinite is through these very same channels of belief; channels that will allow us to subjugate our own will to that which we believe is immortally eternal.
Since, in our own nature, we know that of our own accord we cannot be immortal, or at least in right reason accept the message of those around us that tend to confirm our on mortality — we must seek to recognize that, if immortality exists — it exists beyond us, beyond our person, beyond our eternal.
As a Christian, I deliver to you, into your internal mind, the promise told to me — that through belief, the Truly Eternal Body of Christ is available to all who seek it — that beyond our capacity to understand or overcome our own mortality — there is something which can be believed upon, but does not rely upon our belief for existence. This immortal Truth is made by way of Faith — and that Faith is the belief in that which we do not see, and the hope for things to come.
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.“
(2Corinthians 4:18 NIV)
In short, if you read my words, you believe that I am, but my words to you are from me to you, not made manifest by your capacity to believe in me. If so much the way from mortal man, how much more from God Himself?