March 8 - Queen of Swords

Wisdom and directness.

This feels like a kind of wryly ironic card... building on yesterday's card, talk about a real cybered-space. Though there's nothing -inherently- wrong with high tech capabilities for action at a distance, and, indeed, it's easy to come up with positive impacts it could have in accessibility, research, et cetera... much like every other form of tech financially underwritten by nation states and militaries, the very sight of them brings an immediate visual association with terror and death.

The objects themselves are innocent, though... some human being always is controlling them in an office somewhere, or inputting the coordinates, or writing the algorithm that decides their targets. Even when the technology is brought back from bombing the periphery to being used on the center, it only creates an occasional illusion of convenience or automated "magic," its actual function often being increasingly invasive surveillance and increased precarity. Instead of driving your car around making a series of food deliveries, you're managing six delivery drones at once for less cash and less protection from dissatisfied customers...