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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…

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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…
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered…
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get… — Grant Morrison
I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and… — Patterson Hood
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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends,… — Alexander Trocchi
There are always loose ends in real life. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that… — Charles Henry Parkhurst
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. — Zelda Fitzgerald
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal… — Douglas Rushkoff
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends… — Iris Murdoch
Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied. — Hoda Kotb

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