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

The appeal of TED comes as much from its presentation as from its substance

Just because the picture looks artsy doesn’t mean you are

consuming & owning the present moment has become more important than capturing an experience

many-to-many communication is becoming impossible without a for-profit many-to-one infrastructure

one of the first names considered for the iPhone was actually “iPad

Scholars tend not to think about writing sentences that will make readers throw panties or send flowers

computational social science may make surveillance, profiling, and targeting overly accessible

FB eager to make “connection” an addictive substance, make it instrumental, gratifying, mood regulating rather than given of consciousness

I never really felt safe on Facebook