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Part of what enables the myth (or the meme) of MyLifeBits is the slippage between media convergence and total recall.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
our relation to the space-time axis will be very different from what we have lived with for millennia. We will be swimming in impulses and data—the microchip will make us offers that will be very hard to refuse.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
As communication speeds up, once-stable social structures and relations become as malleable as water.
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
I am referring here not to the potentialities of the individual mind but to the predispositions of a cultural mind-set.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
screen still seems to slip into a synecdoche for "the computer" as a whole.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
Ed Simonlithub.com
But the word on the page is implicitly a memory device, and it long ago liberated the writer to pursue nonformulaic incentives.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
We all feel a desire for connection, for meaning, but we don’t seem to know what to connect with what, and we are utterly at sea about our place as individuals in the world at large.