“The human face is the conduit for the word of God.” But Facebook is a world without faces. Only images of faces; selfies, avatars: dead things. Or the moving image in a FaceTime chat: a haunted puppet. There is always something in the way. You are not talking to a person: the machine is talking, through you, to itself.
Genies being released when you rub (touch controls) a lamp (object that gives off light), releasing a being of immense power that always seems to mess up your wishes by following the letter but not the spirit of your request unless you’re extremely specific and close all the loopholes.
