Living in a social-media world isn’t merely transforming us into brands, it’s corroding the essence of what it means to be a real person
The dismantling of Tiger Woods fascinates me for several reasons. Sure, everyone loves a scandal involving a seemingly perfect icon in sports, especially when it involves sex. It goes further than that [...]
Tomorrow Museum presents an intriguing argument about my generation’s lack “of authors whose love of writing was born from years of geekery, starting in chat rooms and message board,” which jomc dubs the “l33terati” (clever term!), and puts forth a few reasons why such a literary movement hasn’t taken place.
The latter half of the essay [...]
Today, via @Brad_King on Twitter I saw a link to this article published in Newsweek from 1995: The Internet? Blah! by a certain Clifford Stoll.
Now, you have to remember, this was around 13 years ago when the Internet and how it would evolve, how popular it would become, how societies attitudes would shift, etc., were [...]
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