The idea—or the thing itself?

Authenticity is trending.

Why? Maybe it’s because the computerization of our lives has moved us a step away from reality.

Remember Plato? He talked about the reality of an object as opposed to the idea of an object. Something like that. I didn’t understand it back in school when we studied Plato, and I still don’t. But if Plato were alive today, I think he might say computers are messing with our re…