It is said that the Internet is the first truly global market place of ideas. I find that a bit depressing realizing that the most traffic in global ideas are spread shots and bjs.
Internet Quotes
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous-sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
Goddammit! The world is just filling up with more and more idiots! And the computer is giving them access to the world! They’re spreading their stupidity! At least they were contained before – now they’re on the loose everywhere!
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it’s also saddled with democracy’s vice – a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that’s worth hearing.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.
It’s what I always wanted – to be in touch with a community of ideas like this. There’s something thrilling about the internet. It almost doesn’t matter what anyone says. It’s more the thrill of knowing you’re in touch with people laterally, rather than through a filter of some kind.
Sometimes the best metaphor for the Internet seems to be the population of earth itself, in which every human is a Web page related by kinship and conversation to all the other Web pages on earth. Sometimes the metaphor is a globe papered over with hyperlinked Web pages from which, more and more, tiny beacons […]
The tricky phenomenological issue with the real versus fantasy self is this: What is one’s true identity? We usually assume it must be the self that you present to others and consciously experience in your day-to-day living. But is that the true self? Many people walk around in their lives wearing “masks” that are quite […]
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can’t step on it. You can’t go around it. You’ve got to get through it.
Information Superhighway is really an acronym for ‘Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos.’
