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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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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what… — Walter Savage Landor
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. — Joseph Brodsky
Yes, anally retentive men are my forte! — Geoffrey Rush
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond… — Jane Austen
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. — Harvey Mackay
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal… — Douglas Rushkoff
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There… — Jane Austen
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant… — Christopher Hitchens
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated… — Nikola Tesla
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the… — Meg Rosoff

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