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Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
When it was carried into schools in the early 2010s, on smartphones in students’ pockets, it quickly changed the culture for everyone. (Communication networks rapidly become more powerful as they grow.[16]) Students talked to each other less between classes, at recess, and at lunch, because they began to spend much of that time checking their phone
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Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
This brings to mind Marshall McLuhan’s idea: the medium shapes the user.[10] If the Internet gives people the possibility to become actively involved, the individual gets drawn into this possibility and begins to behave accordingly. This remarkable quality of the Internet is beginning to be felt: what is possible becomes obligatory (we will encount
... See moreAndrey Miroshnichenko • Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship
Jaron Lanier, the inventor of virtual reality, calls Google’s triumphant, capacious, efficient data centers “Siren Servers,”
George Gilder • Life After Google
What proportion of the total population will be able to join [this] community? That's still the important question. [He] concludes, still not sure whether this new medium will remain the exclusive property of a smaller group who might end up wielding disproportionate power over others by virtue of their access to these tools, or whether it will bec
... See more“As we cultivate lives of distraction, we are losing our capacity to create and preserve wisdom . . . and slipping towards a line of ignorance that is paradoxically born of an abundance of information and connectivity.”