Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity has a subtext: it asserts the value of instrumentality. Its design is a reflection of its role... The anonymity of these objects is part of what they are: interchangeable commodities whose uniqueness in so far as they possess any is created by what is done with them. Function is an identity. And that identity is something we are encouraged to incorporate into our perception of self, that anonymity is proposed as something to emulate. Whimsy and uniqueness are indulgences.
Nick HarkawayTags: life technology anonymity personality design uniqueness personalization
Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.
Nick HarkawayTags: technology culture digital piracy copyright ip
I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.
Brian RichardsonTags: technology worry anxiety
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: life nostalgia communication technology telephone
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
Ray BradburyTags: humanity technology simplicity machines aversion internets
To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.
Ray BradburyTags: reading humanity technology internet aversion ebooks contrariness
Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.
William C. SamplesTags: imagination writers technology science-fiction
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.
Carl HonoréTags: future work technology
But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what?
Andrew HussieTags: technology subliminal-messages homestuck
In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.
Evan AnglerTags: technology secrets paper
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