The number of women is only a fraction of the number of men; women make up only twenty percent of the Internet use. The absence of women is caused by structural and cultural barriers that produce a psychologically valid choice for women not to take part in information technologies.
Internet Quotes
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
Reading the net is like trying to drink from a firehose. Posting to the net is like shouting at people as they go past on a roller coaster. Archiving the net is like washing toilet paper.
We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation… A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
Hooked on Internet? Help Is a Just a Click Away.
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
The visionaries keep telling us that help is just around the corner in the form of intelligent agents, systems that will figure out our interests and tastes and take us unerringly to exactly the information we are looking for. But it’s clear that the people who glibly describe these things haven’t ever watched a flesh […]
The Moving Finger blogs; and, having blogged, Moves on: fortunately my Piety and Wit Can lure it back to cancel half a Line, and all my Tears wash out a Word of it Thank goodness for delete functions.
