“Faraway servers conceal the materiality of this electronic brain and depict agility in its responses, whether narrated in scarlet, disembodied voices, or formally prosaic text. The wizardry of computer technology distances users from the environmental costs of each mundane question, humorless pun, silly query, and frivolous command made for self-amusement. Nevertheless, artificiality leaks out of […] The post Sounds of the Grid appeared first on Branch.