One thing we love about electronic devices is the certainty that, by pressing a single button, what we want is being done, from making a cup of coffee to opening our Instagram account or getting to the 10th floor of a building in a lift. What if there was such a thing as a Mind …
The Labyrinth of Loneliness
Late in the evening, a woman sits at a table in an empty restaurant, staring into her cup of coffee. Behind her is a window as large as a wall through which one sees nothing of the city’s life. This black rectangle intensely reflects two rows of ceiling lamps. Edward Hopper’s painting “Automat” (1927) conveys …
