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- 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…
- Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just…
- Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist…
- Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to…
- Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the…
- Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And…
- Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to…
- If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of…
- In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current…
- In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,…
- 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…
- Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over…
- The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product.…
- Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a…
- We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an…
- We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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