Perennial reminder that our tools construct us as subjects. Designing a tool REQUIRES making decisions that privilege some applications over others. Every usable technology has a path of least resistance (tasks/outcomes for which it's most suited) and will naturally draw you to those outcomes.

‘We imagine in 8 bit’ is mostly an idea that the blockiness of early Lego and video games left space for human imagination to fill in the gaps and enable new play. It’s also why fast prototyping of UI and digital products skips a critical period of sketchy, fluid imagination and design criticism