People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
Information is alienated experience.
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.