Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&society:

cupcakes match—& attempt to assuage—our cultural anxieties of the moment

The obsession with the Minority Report computer is a betrayal of everything that is human about computers

lets situate our Western New Aesthetic w/in its global context. What kinds of New Aesthetic are we blind to?

Each second, I observe friends on Facebook contributing to a shared space of disposable moments

I’m wondering, now, if machines are, by default, gender queer?

AUDI’s e-sound essentially turns the automobile into a rolling instrument for playing the sound of the engine

the modes of constraint operating through [the Web] are material, while liberation is semiotic

the flight path of a digital artifact never fully stops unfolding, so the range of possibility is never fully formed

typewriters alter the physical connection between writer and text