Category: quote
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“instead of the entire space being private, there are going to be public areas in our home.” – www.superflux.in/blog/valley-of-the-meatpuppets more ›
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“The literary scholars Mark Turner and Francis-Noël Thomas have identified the stance that our best essayists and writers implicitly adopt, and that is a combination of vision and conversation. When… more ›
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“When you’re writing you have none of those advantages. You’re casting your bread onto the waters, hoping that this invisible and unknowable audience will catch your drift.” – Steven Pinker… more ›
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“Why look at any particular image, when they are literally everywhere? Perhaps “photography” has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet… more ›
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“If the matrix and the recursive list are, in a sense, the basic data structures of software, the story is the basic data structure of human beings.” – Cyberflow –… more ›
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“the information revolution is moving from personal to intimate.” – Opinion: Google Glass signals a wearables revolution – CNN.com more ›
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“The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is being done, but what is being thought.” – NSA: THE… more ›
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“we can imagine the entirety of network communication for the last decade—the Big Haul—as a single, deep-and-wide digital simulation of the world (or a significant section of it). It is… more ›
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“In the construction of the User as an aggregate profile that both is and is not specific to any one entity, there is no identity to deduce other than the… more ›
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“Everyday interactions replay the Turing Test over and over. Is there a person behind this machine, and if so, how much?” – The Black Stack | e-flux more ›