“we may risk, in being so concentrated in demolishing digital dualism, overestimating just how enmeshed the digital and analogue are”

“I’ve lost remaining tolerance of people who talk about Facebook as if it’s all trivia. Mine is full of death & pain. As well as the mundane”

“Just had lovely dinner for a friend’s birthday, met interesting people, had a perfect night. No one took any photos. What a waste of time”

“If there’s anything Americans love more than expensive outdoor recreation equipment, bacon, and wars of choice, it’s innovation”

“Google is acting like a court, deciding what content it keeps up and what it pulls  — all without the sort of democratic accountability or transparency we have come to expect”

“how do we build and teach a new form of civics that takes advantage of what seems to work best offline and online?”

“If TED took a turn to leftist (or any) critique, Žižek, the professor of “toilets and ideology,” would be the keynote speaker”

“Ten, 20 years from now, the legacy of [Facebook] should be, we have connected everyone in the world”

“Becoming yourself is largely a matter of becoming someone who is paid attention to”

“Human self-awareness is multiplying itself onto an altogether new plane”

“If the internet ideal inspired the protest movements of the past year, it’s little wonder they’re struggling”

“Instagram is the new go-to platform for saying “I live a full life and here is photographic proof””

“technological autonomy may be the single most important problem ever to face our species and the planet as a whole”

“Facebook’s basic material is the paradox of identity, the principle of self-presentation that can be undone by others”

“an uncritical embrace of automation, for all the efficiency that it offers, is just a prelude to dystopia”

“Analog stuff is popular online”

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From: Branded For Life – http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackstuef/branded-for-life