“Unaugmented reality will always have a power that ‘Augmented Reality’ can never have.”

That’s TTG’s 21st-century paraphrase of a 400-year-old statement by Francis Bacon:

“The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.” (Temporis Partus Masculus, 1605)

Bacon’s quote was made familiar to photographers by Dorothea Lange.