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Does the Web Make Us Networked Robots or Better Humans?
From a summary of a discussion with Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together:
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All You Need is Optimized Data
“[Match.com’s vice-president of strategy Amarnath] Thombre says the technology that helps people fall in love isn’t so different from the kind that enables companies to whisk goods from warehouses to store shelves. ‘In both situations, you are trying to optimize … Continue reading
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Passion and Information Explosion
“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available” –Gregory Benford [also known as Benford’s Law of Controversy]
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InfoStory Quote: Inventing “The Mirror with a Memory”
“The Daguerreotype… has fixed the most fleeting of our illusions, that which the apostle and the philosopher and the poet have alike used as the type of instability and unreality. The photograph has completed the triumph, by making a sheet … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quotes: The Internet Topples Tyrants (cont.)
In 1772, the town of Boston established a Committee of Correspondence as an agency to organize a public information network in Massachusetts; the Committee drafted a pamphlet and a cover letter which it circulated to 260 Massachusetts towns and districts, … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quotes: The Internet Will Abolish War and Topple Tyrants
“When a telegraph network spanned the globe, war would be no more, and cannonballs and mortars would be locked up in museums as curiosities and remnants of a barbarous age” —New York Herald, July 12, 1846 “Every message [the telegraph … Continue reading
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What Novels Do to Our Minds
“NOVELS have ever met with a ready reception into the Libraries of the Ladies, but this species of writing hath not been received with universal approbation: Futility is not the only charge brought against it — Any attempt, therefore, to … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quote: Video Games, 1982
From Time cover story, January 18, 1982: “Says [Time reporter Steven] Holmes: ‘In most games and sports, you learn teamwork and how to adjust to the strengths and weaknesses of others, attributes that serve you well the rest of your … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quotes: IT Jobs Forecasts
“As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.” —Paul Krugman, 1998 “Between 1998 and 2008, … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quote: Navigating Information
“Information isn’t always knowledge and usually falls far short of wisdom. Navigating the information hierarchy is harder than we would like to think and involves more uncertainty than we care to admit.” –David Alan Grier, Investing in Ignorance [Congratulations to … Continue reading
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