{"id":11297,"date":"2012-08-05T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2012-08-05T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:30:17","slug":"in-their-words-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/08\/05\/in-their-words-5\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&amp;society:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304636404577298132546958436.html#ixzz227rbsQ56\" target=\"_blank\">If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, he should have an outfit for that<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marginalutility\/status\/230445545464938497\" target=\"_blank\">As people become brands, we expect not friendship from them but customer service<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/28\/too_many_exclamation_points\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m left wondering why we\u2019re typing so breathlessly, like we\u2019re all skydiving into prom<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/08\/02\/the_fungibility_of_materiality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are 3D printers ontological white holes that produce reality from their printer heads?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/under-our-skins\/\" target=\"_blank\">My mental map was no match for the crisp precision of the iPhone\u2019s&#8230;being in that place meant something different<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/books-and-arts\/magazine\/105703\/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna\" target=\"_blank\">TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/marginal-utility\/the-paranoid-critical-method\/\" target=\"_blank\">The horrendous ramifications for privacy are obvious&#8230;yet they have not deterred anyone from using social media<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/paranoid-androids\/\" target=\"_blank\">drones are the most anthropomorphized of killing machines&#8230;so easily endowed with human subjectivity<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefrailestthing.com\/2012\/08\/04\/the-tech-savvy-amish\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Amish are paradigmatically modern in that they have made the need to think about technology a defining feature of their culture<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/what-should-robots-smell-like-grennan\/\" target=\"_blank\">he also showed a prototype robot armpit that\u2019s humanlike as all-get-out<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&amp;society: \u201cIf your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, he should have an outfit for that\u201d &#8220;As people become brands, we expect not friendship from them but customer service&#8221; 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