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by nitrogen 3819 days ago
It's the same thing as using Polaroid cameras with Impossible film, or vinyl records. It's to find some tangibility in an era of intangibles. The low fidelity is the point.
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Absolutely - the lack of anything tangible in the modern digital world is a huge problem, and slowly people are realising this.

Humans aren't designed for a 'virtual' existence - the technologies may be very useful and empowering in many ways, but they shouldn't take over life and reality.