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- Nov 07, 2020
Internet Quotes
A tool that connects and complicates in equal measure.
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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly, I'm finding myself uncomfortable about how the Internet's developing, who's influencing its development, and who is not.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No company has embraced the liberating aspects of the Internet as a 'new marketplace of ideas' more than the search giant Google.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many years, when people described how the Internet worked - whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there - they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020