Funny dystopia
Adolescents who never learn to control their consciousness grow up to be adults without a “discipline.” They lack the complex skills that will help them survive in a competitive, information-intensive environment. And what is even more important, they never learn how to enjoy living. They do not acquire the habit of finding challenges that bring ou
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
data can be used as an accountability shield, deflecting responsibility for a judgment call. People are more comfortable making decisions based on hard data in part because they can fall back on that data if the decision turns out to be wrong.
Patty McCord • Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
A library without an index becomes paradoxically less informative as it grows.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Third, the universal networked library of all books will cultivate a new sense of authority. If you can truly incorporate all texts—past and present in all languages—on a particular subject, then you can have a clearer sense of what we as a civilization, a species, do and don’t know. The empty white spaces of our collective ignorance are highlighte
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
If it was hard work that counted, the donkey would own the farm.
The endless News Feed casinos that were designed specifically to turn a generation of people into machine-state information banks? Inhumane.