Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand.… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met,… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that.… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models.… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point.… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect. The companies that provide… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Though it’s hard to believe now, newspapers were once the envy of the business world. Through the eighties and nineties, 20, 30, even 40… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“The rub is that over the intervening years we have somehow deceived ourselves into believing that this state of insecurity and inequity is a… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Instead of distinct old and new media, what we have is a complex cultural ecosystem that spans the analog and digital, encompassing physical places… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
