“at every history conference in the foreseeable future, there should be a women’s history Wikipedia Room”

“It’s a fair guess that the attorneys in the Cannibal Cop case have never heard of digital dualism”

“our discomfort with Google Glass is drawn by body horror, not fear of surveillance institutions”

“the cultural and technological impact of Grindr is much broader than most people realize”

“A future of frictionless, continuous shopping fits with Google’s vision for the world”

“we really don’t have a choice between mediated and unmediated experience”

“For Brin, Glass is for a privileged elite“

“self-quantification has a really important, prevalent, and somewhat ironic, qualitative component”

“And so it came to pass that SimCity was released and no one could play it”

“Theorizing about the Facebook interface calls for a radical departure from research orthodoxy in new media studies”

“we are more than any well-intentioned hashtag could ever embody”

 

David A. Banks

“Blitzkrieg cultural imperialism allows previously under-Instagrammed areas of our city to fulfill their potential as playgrounds for the rich”

“He’s never had a lot of patience for shirtless macho Americans who descend into jungles, declaring their inhabitants to be violent savages”

“Some wondered if the bird was a spy of sorts, others contemplated booking it for a news show”

“Still, we bet somewhere on his private island Richard Branson is weeping over the dangers of joining the ‘220-mile high club”

“The Telekommunist Manifesto, proposes ‘Venture Communism’ as a new working model for peer production”

 

Jenny Davis

“We replaced the flag of the revolution with pornography”

“It was difficult to find people who could fully utilize Google Fiber in their imaginations”

 

Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com].

 

Ira Google Glass