{"id":16672,"date":"2013-08-25T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=16672"},"modified":"2013-08-25T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T16:30:13","slug":"in-their-words-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/08\/25\/in-their-words-58\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

technology and society quotes from the past week.<\/em><\/p>\n

“a religion based around getting Facebook Likes<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Facebook has a ways to go before it catches up to coffee<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“it explicitly privileges communicative practices of speech and voice over text without justifying this gigantic assumption<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“I am now watching Twitter become morally depopulated<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3-4 hour days<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“you provide such a neat explanation of technological determinism that I can\u2019t wait to share it with my undergrads<\/a>“<\/p>\n

“At some point, it may (may) have made sense to associate Facebook with peace. But that time is over<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“academics have a lot of bad options and a handful of acceptable ones that zigzag across academia and industry<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Airbnb illustrates algorithmic living<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Medium wasn’t building a magazine, I realized, but a magazine killer<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“when the majority of people are telling you not to do something, that might be an indication that it\u2019s something worth doing<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Funeral directors in a handful of states must tap out death certificates on a typewriter<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson<\/a>] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com<\/a>].<\/i><\/p>\n

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I'm OK with people who use "digital detox" earnestly disappearing from the internet for as long as they want.<\/p>\n

— Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) August 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n