Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
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“Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”
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“American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.”
“The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.”
“Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.”
“The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.”
“Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek.”
“Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.”
“I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.”
“See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.”
“It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.”
“There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.”
“Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.”
“Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.”