I've been reading about technologies recently and how they subtly influence and frame our lives and experience of our lives. It's scary stuff to become more aware of it. That so much of not just what we see and learn, but also how we see and learn is influenced by various technologies that go almost totally unnoticed in our daily lives. Here's a quote to exemplify:

"The normally invisible quality of working infrastructure becomes visible when it breaks: the server is down, the bridge washes out, there is a power blackout" (From Graham/Marvin: Splintering Urbanism)

I think this emphasises it very well. That what we really rely on, and become so dependent without even knowing it, can only be appreciated when it is taken away.

The reason I posted it here is I immediately drew a connection between that and the spiritual, nebulous, liminal underpinning to our lives. Often is is only when these are challenged or threatened that we can become aware of what we normally don't even notice, even though we completely rely on them for the very way we exist and may be totally unaware of it.

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but there seems to me another connection between the way technologies infuse the way we experience and the way the spiritual underpins.