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- Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the…
- It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold,…
- Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
- On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your…
- As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found…
- As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story -…
- Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making…
- I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian…
- New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
- Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound…
- One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance…
- Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's,…
- People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
- Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was…
- Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our…
- Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more…
- The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to…
- The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because…
- Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself…
- While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always…
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