Our compulsion and talent for changing our world and ourselves is hardwired in our frontal lobes and opposable thumbs; our extremities evolved to walk upon and grasp the world, to roam it and use it. If the Devil is in the details, so is God, or at least the Demiurge. The seduction of digital technology in particular is not demonic, but Faustian. Faust didn’t sell his soul for ordinary wealth or power, but for the transformative development of progress, his and society’s. Faust’s problem was not in the nature of his goal, but in the coin he paid.
