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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…
- Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our…
- Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but…
- Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
- If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some fundamental things change.…
- More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness.…
- Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend…
- As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which…
- As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story -…
- 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's…
- Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for…
- For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir…
- I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks.…
- In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine…
- Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of…
- Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available…
- Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability…
- New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might…
- Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force…
- Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for…
- Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other…
- Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No…
- 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.
- 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 competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need…
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