Status Updates From Utopia Is Creepy: And Other...

I originally picked up this book, ngl, looking for something dull enough to put me to sleep at night during a bout of insomnia. The first third of the book or so was serving that purpose but the later posts are becoming more interesting.

The court took a different view. Online aggregation is not a neutral act, it ruled, but a transformative one. In collecting, organizing, and ranking information, a search engine is creating something new, a product that reflects the business’s own editorial intentions and judgments, as expressed through its information-processing algorithms.

On Marshal McLuhan “His books read like accounts of acid trips written by a bureaucrat.”

On Marshal McLuhan “His books read like accounts of acid trips written by a bureaucrat.”

What I want from technology is not a new world. What I want from technology are tools for exploring and enjoying the world that is—the world that comes to us thick with “things counter, original, spare, strange,” as Gerard Manley Hopkins long ago described it.

Pretty funny, I'm announcing on the Internet that I'm reading a book about not living your life on the internet.

Love it!

"Being online means being alone, and being in an online community means being alone together."