{"id":12743,"date":"2012-10-28T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=12743"},"modified":"2012-10-28T02:05:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T06:05:58","slug":"in-their-words-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/28\/in-their-words-17\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/special-report\/21565007-geography-matters-much-ever-despite-digital-revolution-says-patrick-lane\" target=\"_blank\">The digital and the physical are becoming one<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2012\/08\/designing-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design is one of the linchpins of capitalism, because it makes alienated labor possible<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/article\/paris-and-the-data-mind\" target=\"_blank\">My hologram rendered somehow less complete. A broken stream in the data mind<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activism.net\/cypherpunk\/manifesto.html\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2012\/09\/broken-on-purpose\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook is broken, on purpose, in order to extract more money from users<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/25\/book-review-invisible-users-youth-in-the-internet-cafes-of-urban-ghana\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cInvisible Users\u201d is one of the few texts explicitly dealing with the Internet that will not feel dated in five years<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/26\/arts\/jacques-barzun-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-104.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Writing for a general audience, he said, was \u201ca responsibility of scholars<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/12\/10\/the-world-is-not-enough-google-and-the-future-of-augmented-reality\/264059\/\" target=\"_blank\">Given a city block, the challenge will be to excavate and present that information which the most people are curious about at the precise moment they walk through it<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/24\/social-media-and-the-devolution-of-friendship-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scrobbling might be \u201csocial,\u201d but it\u2019s not very personal<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/10\/23\/is_wikipedia_going_commercial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedians may be their own worst enemy<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/remote-us-base-at-core-of-secret-operations\/2012\/10\/25\/a26a9392-197a-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a Predator parked at the camp started its engine without any human direction, even though the ignition had been turned off and the fuel lines closed<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/10\/what-an-academic-who-wrote-her-dissertation-on-trolls-thinks-of-violentacrez\/263631\/\" target=\"_blank\">I would challenge the idea that trolls, and trolls alone, are why we can&#8217;t have nice things online<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kashmirhill\/2012\/10\/15\/why-the-internet-cool-kids-think-gawker-outing-reddits-violentacrez-is-the-best-story-about-the-web-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Memory on the Internet is both infinite and fleeting<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/loving-the-alien\/\" target=\"_blank\">EDM lets listeners experience what feels like risk, and excess but is actually very tightly and carefully controlled<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/quantum-drift\/\" target=\"_blank\">In this climate, it gets hard to draw strict distinctions between living systems and mechanical ones<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/quantum-drift\/\" target=\"_blank\">A machine does far more than the task it performs. It is forged of historical moments, acts as a flash-point for contemporary questions, and always, inevitably, produces new cultures of its own<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Nathan on Twitter: @nathanjurgenson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div><!--more--><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mcl3ybswGH1r8z539o1_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mcla04dsSL1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mc9270orKc1r8z539o1_400.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"246\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mc7qv0vb4N1r8z539o1_250.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" \/><\/div>\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-12743","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\/12743","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=12743"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}