{"id":11564,"date":"2012-08-26T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=11564"},"modified":"2012-08-26T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T15:04:03","slug":"in-their-words-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/08\/26\/in-their-words-8\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\/status\/237331348128419840\" target=\"_blank\">facebook asks you to produce yourself in terms that are corporate<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2012\/08\/20\/books-are-not-sacred-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\">We love books for what they carry within them, not for what they\u2019re made of<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/qr-code-vaccine-scar-digital-prophylactic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Already, [QR code] technology boasts a certain retronostalgic appeal<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nextness.com.au\/real-life\/the-internet-is-real-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">if you discard the digital dualist viewpoint, you don\u2019t have to choose between online and \u201creal\u201d life<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/southsouth\/how-to-shop-better\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet shopping and drone flying can happen in the same remote space anywhere in the world<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/no-accidents-comrade\/\" target=\"_blank\">where fiction generally resists reader alteration, board games take it for granted<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/22\/business\/media\/how-call-me-maybe-and-social-media-are-upending-music.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bieber\u2019s role in popularizing the song reflects the importance of both social media &amp; old-fashioned celeb promotion<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/19\/business\/electronic-scores-rank-consumers-by-potential-value.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">The result is a private, digital ranking of American society unlike anything that has come before<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/art-and-architecture\/after-the-summer-of-the-hologram-whats-next\/article4497013\/\" target=\"_blank\">to touch and feel the Internet, to do with our virtual experience what Surrealists did with their dreams<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/art-and-architecture\/after-the-summer-of-the-hologram-whats-next\/article4497013\/\" target=\"_blank\">It won\u2019t be enough to touch our screens, some day. Our screens will touch us back<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/article-content\/133551\/\" target=\"_blank\">A set of podcasts is the 21st-century equivalent of a textbook, not the 21st-century equivalent of a teacher<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/zunguzungu\/trigger-warning-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women lie, and they do it to ruin men in positions of power. We shall henceforth call this \u201cThe Reddit Defence<\/a>\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-scanners-20120823,0,525488,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">a rapidly growing group of L.A.-area residents who share a passion for listening to police scanners and then disseminating that local news online, in real time, via Twitter<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Nathan on Twitter: @nathanjurgenson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tech and society quotes from what i read this past week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18297],"tags":[36439,2954,18298,3507,12],"class_list":["post-11564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-their-words","tag-in-their-words","tag-jurgenson","tag-quotes","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11574,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}