Comment by davnicwil

yeah, I think I misunderstood the point you were making and I'm making a different but related point. So we probably don't disagree.

Interesting point on the word augment. I'd always took it to mean something more like a value-neutral addition, to which one is free to apply their own value judgements, which could be positive or negative and in any case aren't objective.

To take an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of: you're out on a peaceful countryside walk yet are able to receive emails. The experience is augmented by this-- in my interpretation meaning you have something literally added to it. But the effect of this can be both positive or negative, to any degree, depending on the email itself and any number of other factors.

Anyway I think we're mostly just getting into semantics and I probably agree actually with your original point :-)