“for those of us whose bodies seem like a burden or an ontological prison, the Internet functions as a utopia of sorts”

“Vine’s six seconds feels like an eternity”

“These messages are intended specifically to shame and frighten women out of engaging online”

“I hear ‘clickclickclickclickclick’ all over the place…they are photographing me, and now I’m pissed. I felt like a zoo animal”

“Facebook is not *doing* anything to society”

“we don’t like seeing Apple bloggers imply Android’s success doesn’t count because what—poor people don’t count?”

“Why do we photograph the aftermath of misadventure?”

“Plato was right. The efficient and durable externalization of memory makes us personally indifferent to remembrance“

“by pretending that joining up all those disconnected dots is no big deal, Facebook is being dishonest and dumb”

“Teams of players are charged with taking out as many [surveillance] cameras as possible”

“make no mistake: Vine will be a big deal”

“poor people have little choice but to surrender their privacy in the name of social mobility”

“We’ll probably see a day when games aren’t defined by winstates”

“why not use a robot of Andy to dramatize his philosophy?”

“There is something about watching a missile vaporize a guy from the view of a close up camera”

“This is digital dualism, but it’s also determinism at work”

“It seems *normal* to them to walk into a bar with Google Glasses, even though everyone’s smirking at them”

“it appears no accident that expansion of personal debt occurred pari passu with technological development”

“MOOCs are an essentially authoritarian structure; a one-way process in which the student is a passive recipient”

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