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What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.
The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.
The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.
We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.
Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.
We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.
The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.
We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.
The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.
The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.
Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.
If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.
There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs.
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.
The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.