{"id":13152,"date":"2012-11-25T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=13152"},"modified":"2012-12-02T04:30:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T08:30:20","slug":"in-their-words-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/11\/25\/in-their-words-21\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

“the Cyborgology school of digital criticism<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u201cA simple piece of software got us through the dark ages of computing<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

“The Decelerator Helmet is an experimental approach for dealing with our fast moving society…a perception of the world in slow motion<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“War existed before social media, but not like this. This is a new thing<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“he’s the one who was violated. But he knows that won’t stop anyone from clicking “play” over and over again<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“A book is basically thousands of tweets printed out and stapled together between pieces of cardboard<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“does it even make sense to distinguish between the natural and technological sublime?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“ideally, real human users will leave social networking altogether<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Build a world where Facebook is obviously the inferior mode of communication and fast food just seems gross<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we buy iPads b\/c they change & improve our lives? Or because we need something we can believe improves our lives?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

“We’ve got enough stuff going on inside a race car. We don’t need to have cell phones in there, distracting us<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“document the moment, and then worry about passing it around later<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“biological storage would allow us to record anything and everything without reservation<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“terms \u2018digital media\u2019 & \u2018new media\u2019 do not capture very well the uniqueness of the \u2018digital revolution\u2019<\/a>” [pdf]<\/p>\n

Follow Nathan on Twitter: @nathanjurgenson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n