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"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."
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"Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world."
"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
"All the promise of a movie is in the trailer."
"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
"In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'"
"I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing."
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"If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military."
"I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today."
"The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses."
"War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it."
"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
"Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music."
"You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information."
"I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote."
"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."
"A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend."
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