technology and society quotes from the past week.

“a religion based around getting Facebook Likes”

“Facebook has a ways to go before it catches up to coffee”

“it explicitly privileges communicative practices of speech and voice over text without justifying this gigantic assumption”

“I am now watching Twitter become morally depopulated”

“the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3-4 hour days”

“you provide such a neat explanation of technological determinism that I can’t wait to share it with my undergrads“

“At some point, it may (may) have made sense to associate Facebook with peace. But that time is over”

“academics have a lot of bad options and a handful of acceptable ones that zigzag across academia and industry”

“Airbnb illustrates algorithmic living”

“Medium wasn’t building a magazine, I realized, but a magazine killer”

“when the majority of people are telling you not to do something, that might be an indication that it’s something worth doing”

“Funeral directors in a handful of states must tap out death certificates on a typewriter”

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