176. But what makes Internet telegardening interesting, and
what makes it a cousin of traditional gardening, is that it
affords a direct link with a real garden — not, of course a
causally direct link, but an epistemically direct link.
And it is this epistemic directness that matters. When
telerobotic engagement is epistemically direct, it gives us
uninferred knowledge of a garden thousands of miles
away, and with it a desire to tend that garden and see it
grow.
– Michael Idinopulos,
«Telepistemology, Mediation, and the
Design of Transparent Interfaces»
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