Love First: Reboot

What if you could reboot the universe?

Faruk Ateş
Love First
Published in
6 min readApr 28, 2020

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Okay, perhaps that is a tall order. You’d have to harness the power of the fourth dimension itself, in its cosmic entirety and all its infinite possibilities, and figure out what a reboot would actually mean at the atomic, particle, and quantum levels. Doable, sure; just not by any of us.

So what if we started a little smaller: what if you could reboot yourself?

What if you took the ache in your heart, the worries in your head, and the stress in your body, and hit something like a “reset” button that lets you reinvent yourself… and redefine what it means to be a human, being?

“I am a human being, not a human doing.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everything Is Communication

Across how many dimensions do you communicate intentionally? How about consciously?

In 1964, Canadian communication thinker Marshall McLuhan coined the expression “the medium is the message,” to capture the idea that the nature of how something is communicated (the medium) is more important than what is being communicated.

When speech first became written, the potential lifespan of a message grew from a whispered chain of decades to…

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Faruk Ateş
Love First

Love First Person, writer, technologist, designer. Playing the Game of Love because the Power one is boring.