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“That doesn’t mean that the Internet of Things will triumph, because, in some ways, it can’t win. It’s too broad and vague to win; it’s a huge, looming infrastructural phenomenon, much like “electrification” or “automation” once were. People never voted to become electrical or automated.”
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
“There is no power-group of consequence in the world today that successfully renounces smartphones. No one who matters refuses what they offer.”
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
“The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It’s a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.”
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
“The Internet of Things makes no attempt to redress, or even address, the many real problems that the internet brought to the world. On the contrary, it’s an international effort to bring everything that wasn’t internet within the purview of the techno-elite that currently dominates the internet.”
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
― The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
“If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don’t need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.”
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
Dietrich’s 2022 Year in Books
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