“Stars have become meaningless “His self-published software on the Android market totals over 300,000 downloads and none has less than four stars.”
— Google Glass: what it’s like to use, by the inventor of the ‘Winky’ photo app
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“the notion that news organizations should “move from brands to platforms for talent,” capitalizing on the star power of individual writers to generate new business models for media.”
— U MAD??? Evgeny Morozov, The Internet, And The Failure Of Invective | The Awl
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“If everything will be free, why are we trying to corner anything?”
— U MAD??? Evgeny Morozov, The Internet, And The Failure Of Invective | The Awl
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“People don’t go online to become someone else, they go online and the network makes them into many selves, all as true in the moment as any other, and all changing the world with their tiny ephemeral footprints, making a trillion memories none of us will ever remember to remember, all watched over by machines of loving grace.”
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“My problem is I need a new literature to describe network culture in terms that are true to itself, your problem is you need a new science to do the same.”
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“We don’t understand what we’re doing, what we’re writing about, our own creation has surpassed the methods of reductionism we used to create it.”
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“The sum of human knowledge is your latent, unthought thoughts, the words of all the other humans your memories to never be remembered.”
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“You are a node, like a forgotten memory to everyone else, just as they are to you.”
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“And then there’s this empty pretense that these innovations make the world “better.” This is a dangerous word. Like: “If we’re not making the world better, then why are we doing this at all?” Now, I don’t want to claim that this attitude is hypocritical. Because when you say a thing like that at South By: “Oh, we’re here to make the world better” — you haven’t even reached the level of hypocrisy. You’re stuck at the level of childish naivete.”
— Text of SXSW2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
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