“Once you’re running at Internet speed, is there any turning back?”

“there is no option to “roll back” the impact the Internet has made on human existence”

“there is life after the compass, maps and even GPS”

“We are technologists by nature. Or to use philosopher Andy Clark’s apt phrase: We are natural-born cyborgs”

“Why does Bokeh matter? First of all because there’s more of it than there used to be”

“L.A.-area residents share a passion for listening to police scanners and spreading that news online, in real time, via Twitter”

“Hyperdocumentation makes us all aware of the one life we’ve chosen and leaves less room to imagine alternatives”

“social media functions to uphold or replicate hierarchies of print capitalism”

“our attack on Armstrong speaks to our collective discomfort with a cyborg nature”

“this is the most boring thought about technology that can be had”

“Twitter’s largest implications are micropolitical, changing the rules of our interpersonal collisions”

“the successful troll expends much less time and energy on the interaction than their targets do”

“If ‘digital’ isn’t a place or a world or a reality, can it be a practice?”

“our culture’s reorientation from lived to statistical experience”

“Twilight of the Elites is a good example of a nonfiction book written in the shadow of the blogosphere”

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