a cousin of traditional gardening, is that it affords a direct link with a real garden — not, of course a causally direct link, but an epistemically direct link. And it is this epistemic directness that matters. When telerobotic engagement is epistemically direct, it gives us uninferred knowledge of a garden thousands of miles away, and with it a desire to tend that garden and see it grow. – Michael Idinopulos, «Telepistemology, Mediation, and the Design of Transparent Interfaces» & & $ %