The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude. Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.
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Jeff Alexander
The web was such a vital part of my life. It was like an oracle, a book that never ran out of pages, and a window into a million different rooms all at once.
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Max Harms
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We...
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Henry David Thoreau
The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates. What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You Can Be More Alone and if You Want to Connect , It Makes Easier to Connect.
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Esther Dyson
I picture it like Judgement Day, ' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We'll meet in that new place, all of us together, and first it'll seem strange,...
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Jennifer Egan
More Quotes By Clay Shirky
When we change the way we communicate, we change society
Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.
[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
