“facebook asks you to produce yourself in terms that are corporate”

“We love books for what they carry within them, not for what they’re made of”

“Already, [QR code] technology boasts a certain retronostalgic appeal”

“if you discard the digital dualist viewpoint, you don’t have to choose between online and “real” life”

“Internet shopping and drone flying can happen in the same remote space anywhere in the world”

“where fiction generally resists reader alteration, board games take it for granted”

“Bieber’s role in popularizing the song reflects the importance of both social media & old-fashioned celeb promotion”

“The result is a private, digital ranking of American society unlike anything that has come before”

“to touch and feel the Internet, to do with our virtual experience what Surrealists did with their dreams”

“It won’t be enough to touch our screens, some day. Our screens will touch us back”

“A set of podcasts is the 21st-century equivalent of a textbook, not the 21st-century equivalent of a teacher”

“Women lie, and they do it to ruin men in positions of power. We shall henceforth call this “The Reddit Defence””

“a rapidly growing group of L.A.-area residents who share a passion for listening to police scanners and then disseminating that local news online, in real time, via Twitter”

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