“the Amish are paradigmatically modern in that they have made the need to think about technology a defining feature of their culture”

“humans tweeting about watching a humanmade satellite watch a humanmade rover descend on Mars”

“he also showed a prototype robot armpit that’s humanlike as all-get-out”

“only a white man would believe that the online literary culture suffers from too much niceness”

“emergent, digital and participatory technologies are vital for the endurance rather than demise of libraries”

“When “on vacation” from social media, people bask in their freedom from virtual performance”

“Social media promises a society in which anyone can and probably should investigate anyone”

“We become so focused on the connections, at the relations between human and nonhuman nodes, that we forget that a node can be a hungry child”

“And with only a few wires, these machines, these cameras can be made to dream”

“Artificial Intelligence meets human intelligence, and the human gets to sort things out”

“OMG it’s the end of the world: K-mart shoppers and people of color found Twitter”

“In an era of ectoplasm & ghost photography, the spirituality of machines seemed logical & exciting”

“One-Dimensional man made to look three dimensional in two dimensions”

“I haven’t opened up Instapaper in weeks. I’m scared to look”

“they felt meaningless unless they were being observed“