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• 02-Mar-2012
  Quote of the Day: Bruce Sterling, in 1998 How will the digitalization and networking of information affect us and change people’s lives? Bruce Sterling: You’d do better seeking out the very few aspects of people’s lives that will remain unchanged by this. What should we watch out for in an information-rich, techo-Utopia? Bruce Sterling: Surveillance, spies, Mafias, stock market and currency bubbles; stalking,...

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• 01-Mar-2012
  Quote of the Day Previously. Jesse Thorn with another quote of the day, commenting on comments on his commentary: I would argue that the fact that I was struggling to make ends meet was the REASON that I built my show into what it is. If I was a dilettante who did this shit for fun, I’d probably be...

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• 08-Jan-2010
  Surplus … freaks people out (QOTD) Quote of the Day from Clay Shirky: Unfortunately for us, though, the intellectual fate of our historical generation is unlikely to matter much in the long haul. It is our misfortune to live through the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race, a misfortune because surplus always breaks more things...

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