The Fragile Man-Made Information Shell

We cover ourselves with a man-made shell - layer upon layer. Expensive like rare stones, fragile like crystal, deadly like the plague. The deeper we plunge into the new world, where information travels at breakneck speeds, the more we spend our attention on the sum of efforts, capacities, mechanisms. As a man constructs a battlefield out of pain, so from the information shell he constructs a shell of sums of technological efforts.