Simon

“truth is not dictated by the number of likes on Twitter but rather by evidence.”
― Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth – A New York Times Bestselling Science Book on the Oumuamua Mystery and Alien Technology from Harvard's Top Astronomer

“Tech sucked up our personal experiences and data, organized it with artificial intelligence, manipulated us with it, and created behavior at a scale that brought out the worst in humanity.”
― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator

“Facebook didn’t only provide a platform for those propagandists’ speech or even only enable them; in fact, it gave them preferential treatment because anger is the contagious currency of Facebook’s current machine. Only anger, outrage, and fear lead to greater numbers of people using Facebook more times a day. Violence has made Facebook rich.”
― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator

“Malcolm Muggeridge captured this parting of the ways in a gloomy piece for Encounter: ‘Each time I return to England from abroad,’ he observed, ‘the country seems a little more run-down than when I went away; its streets a little shabbier, its railway carriages and restaurants a little dingier; the editorial pretensions of its newspapers a little emptier, and the vainglorious rhetoric of its politicians a little more fatuous.’29”
― Philip Stephens, Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit