after keeping a diary and trying to pinpoint what experiences truly make her feel alive, realizes that she seems to pay two kinds of attention: “narrow attention” and “wide attention.” She describes them in a chapter called “Two Ways of Looking”:
In 1985, a gigabyte of hard drive memory cost around $75,000. By 1995, it was around $750. Come 2004 — the year Gmail began — it was a few dollars. Today, it’s less than a penny. Now Gmail offers 15 gigabytes free. What a marvel. What a mess.
The web I invented was to provide power and value to individuals, which they do not have at the moment. Users should have an ability to control their own data, to share it with other people and organizations as they choose.
I read new fiction, as I knew writers must, but the stuff that everyone was talking about back then was written by men - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Philip Roth. I read them dutifully, and admired them, but I couldn’t see any way into that world.
The potential for artists is promising, not just because of the massive audience one’s exposed to but also due to the algorithm. It favours content creators via effective hashtags and brings like-minded people together on artists’ profiles.
Clubs artificialising the scruffy magic of the match day experience into a package which can more easily be transported, consumed, and sold; and the way fans, looking for the promised atmosphere they’ve been longing for, that they'd paid good money for, would forever have their phone out, at the ready, recording, just in case, so they can prove it ... See more