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In the old pre-technology days, it would have been almost impossible to replicate Facebook or Twitter. The closest you could get would be to mail dozens of postcards a day to everybody you knew, each with a brief message about yourself like: “Finally got that haircut I’ve been putting off.” The people receiving those postcards would have naturally assumed you were a moron. Dave Barry, I’ll Mature When I’m Dead All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance... Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot, “The Rock” Would it not be true to say that North Americans prefer to use reality rather than to know it? Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude Too much information. Uma Thurman, “Pulp Fiction”
The imperatives of technology and organization, not the images of ideology, are what determine the shape of economic society. John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch, Homo Faber I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention – invention, in my opinion, arises from idleness, possibly also from laziness. Agatha Christie, An Autobiography We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Evil communications corrupt good manners. I Corinthians 15:33
The bourgeoisie... by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, witnessing the detonation of the first atomic bomb and quoting the god Vishnu from the Bhagavad Gita
As if. Alicia Silverstone, “Clueless”
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