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““In a talk at a recent Phi Beta Kappa meeting, Duke University professor Katherine Hayles confessed, “I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore.”10 Hayles teaches English; the students she’s talking about are students of literature.””

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“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the…

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“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

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“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The”

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“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27”

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“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.”

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“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.”

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“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

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“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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