The Culture of the New Capitalism Quotes

“The iPod, I noted, disables its user by its very
overcapacity; the glut of information generated by modern technology more largely threatens to make its receivers passive. Overload prompts disengagement. Seely Brown again makes a useful distinction in this regard between information and communication. An overwhelming volume of information, he suggests, is not an “innocent” problem; large amounts of raw data create a political fact: control becomes more centralized as volume increases. Whereas in communication, the volume of information decreases as people interact and interpret; editing and elimination are the procedures which decentralize communication.”
― Richard Sennett, The Culture of the New Capitalism

“I mean here to propound a paradox, that people can actively enter into their own passivity.”
― Richard Sennett, The Culture of the New Capitalism