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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 enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but…
- Digiphreniaâ€â€”the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
- It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices…
- With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things.…
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