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he wrote continuously about the necessity of our understanding the politics and epistemology of media.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In fact, overlooking this fundamental aspect of human nature arguably landed us here, at the end of this first age of social network goliaths, wondering where it all went haywire. If we think of these networks as marketplaces trading only in information, and not in status, then we're only seeing part of the machine. The menacing phone call has been
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“surveillance capitalism.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
A medium that displays a capacity for reinvention tends, in the long run at least, to build up a much larger community of people who want to help reinvent it.
Steven Johnson • Future Perfect
“The default condition of paper is persistence, if not interrupted; the default condition of electronic signals is interruption, if not periodically renewed.”
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
The new information and communication technologies are more subversive of the modern state than any political threat to its predominance since Columbus sailed. This is important because those in power have seldom reacted peacefully to developments that undermined their authority. They are not likely to now.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Jared Henderson • Information overload is nothing new
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.