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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…
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered…
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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 wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to…
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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable…
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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,…
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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the…
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.…
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
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Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a…
— Unknown Author
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Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new…
— Steven Clark Rockefeller
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…
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As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…
— Michelle Alexander
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