“There is an essential lack of any heroic narrative in most films about the second Gulf War”

“In twenty years universal television will be an everyday affair” (1927)

“Romney campaign’s presence on Tumblr is more subdued”

“the apocalypse of the coming Reputation Market, in which all humans will be searchable, sortable and assigned a value by a judge, jury and executioner of their peers across the Internet”

“The pay-to-promote feature disrupts the interest-based algorithm”

“social media encourages thinking of authenticity as moment of external confirmation; others decide if you have been true to yourself”

“The symbiotic relationship between us and our apps will be seamless”

“there are two different settings for the privacy of your phone number in two different places. Because that’s the way Facebook rolls”

“ESC became a kind of “interrupt” button on the PC — a way to poke the computer and say, “Cut it out””

“the concept of ‘internet addiction’ relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of what the internet is”

“Will there ever be a laptop that needs to be broken in, and improves as you use it?”

“With these gardens as crypto-water-computers, they were taking measurements of the universe”

“A troll exploits social dynamics like computer hackers exploit security loopholes”

“The point again is Internet is REAL & deciding that it’s unreal, virtual, trivial etc. is a function of the privilege it accords the denier”

“the fighting of war is now augmented – war by physical and digital means are now inseparable”

“there is no compelling evidence that any online dating matching algorithm actually works”

“Ensconced in the home, the 3-D printer is a step toward the replicator: a machine that can instantly produce any object with no input of human labor”

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