Status Updates From To Save Everything, Click H...

Something about the experience of living in the polis with other human beings is essentially irreducible to formulaic expression and optimization techniques.

Internet-centrism, as already noted, has the disturbing power to recast old, discarded, and retrograde ideas as unique, original, and progressive sheerly by virtue of their association with 'the Internet'

Kelly writes that 'everything I knew about the structure of information convinced me that knowledge would not spontaneously emerge from data, without a lot of energy and intelligence deliberately directed to transforming it.' What a reasonable thing to have believed! Only there's no reason to stop believing this today.

Here is modernity in a nutshell: We are left with possibly better food but without the joy of cooking.

Not sure I'll read this one. I just finished the intro and while I agree with some of the author's points, the overall tone is alarmist and conveys the feeling this book was published mainly as a sensationalist piece to make money.