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"I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other if we can have each other at a digital distance-not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding. When we clean them up with technology, we move from conversation to the efficiency of mere connection. I fear we forget the difference."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
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"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."
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"Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return."
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"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
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"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
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"Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps."
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"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."
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"Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead."
Technology
"I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day."
Writing
"There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete."
Thinking
"Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?"
Silence
"My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me."
Technology
"Rapture is costly, it usually means you are overlooking consequences."
Desire
"Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds."
Society
"She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber."
Internet
"Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine."
Technology
"He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder."
Wisdom
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