"What the Web has never figured out is……" — George Packer
"What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say."
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24 Quotes by George Packer
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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
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Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and…
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With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making…
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Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and…
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line…
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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Twitter is crack for media addicts,
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At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish,…
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