{"id":12404,"date":"2012-10-14T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=12404"},"modified":"2012-10-14T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:34:18","slug":"in-their-words-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/14\/in-their-words-15\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/04\/war-games-war-stories-part-i-blackwhitegray-all-over\/\" target=\"_blank\">There is an essential lack of any heroic narrative in most films about the second Gulf War<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/paleofuture\/2012\/10\/predictions-from-the-father-of-science-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">In twenty years universal television will be an everyday affair<\/a>&#8221; (1927)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/08\/technology\/campaigns-use-social-media-to-lure-younger-voters.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Romney campaign\u2019s presence on Tumblr is more subdued<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/10\/how-much-for-the-little-girl-a-terrifying-human-reputation-market-looms\" target=\"_blank\">the apocalypse of the coming Reputation Market, in which all humans will be searchable, sortable and assigned a value by a judge, jury and executioner of their peers across the Internet<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/08\/ready-to-be-a-brand-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The pay-to-promote feature disrupts the interest-based algorithm<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marginalutility\/status\/255722856300814336\" target=\"_blank\">social media encourages thinking of authenticity as moment of external confirmation; others decide if you have been true to yourself<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/reign-of-the-techno-nanny\/\" target=\"_blank\">The symbiotic relationship between us and our apps will be seamless<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kashmirhill\/2012\/10\/09\/surprise-you-can-use-facebook-for-caller-id\/\" target=\"_blank\">there are two different settings for the privacy of your phone number in two different places. Because that\u2019s the way Facebook rolls<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/07\/magazine\/who-made-that-escape-key.html?ref=technology\" target=\"_blank\">ESC became a kind of \u201cinterrupt\u201d button on the PC \u2014 a way to poke the computer and say, \u201cCut it out\u201d<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mindhacks.com\/2007\/08\/20\/why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-internet-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">the concept of \u2018internet addiction\u2019 relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of what the internet is<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/10\/06\/flawless\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will there ever be a laptop that needs to be broken in, and improves as you use it?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html\" target=\"_blank\">With these gardens as crypto-water-computers, they were taking measurements of the universe<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5950981\/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web\" target=\"_blank\">A troll exploits social dynamics like computer hackers exploit security loopholes<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/techsoc\/status\/257172882675884032\" target=\"_blank\">The point again is Internet is REAL &amp; deciding that it&#8217;s unreal, virtual, trivial etc. is a function of the privilege it accords the denier<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/10\/war-games-war-stories-part-ii-meaning-and-simulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">the fighting of war is now augmented \u2013 war by physical and digital means are now inseparable<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/12\/social-networks_n_1955496.html\" target=\"_blank\">there is no compelling evidence that any online dating matching algorithm actually works<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterfrase.com\/2012\/10\/the-3-d-printed-future-and-its-enemies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ensconced in the home, the 3-D printer is a step toward the replicator: a machine that can instantly produce any object with no input of human labor<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Nathan on Twitter: @nathanjurgenson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAzzbrFgcUw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mbasa9Jnoy1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mbltix76vR1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/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-12404","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\/12404","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=12404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12408,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions\/12408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}