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“Everything is about the phone; everything is about the internet.”

Book:In Limbo

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“Messages marking the start of a romance used to require forethought and an effort to be at least somewhat charming; back when they were written in ink and delivered by horse or carrier pigeon or personally in the flesh, or even just the postal service last century, they were supposed to count. Now that they’re delivered in more of a stream of consciousness than speech and at the speed of light to computers and phones where myriad other forms of communication are possible and likely taking place simultaneously, they’re practically meaningless.”

Romance Messages Social Media Meaning Courtship The Internet Pitching Woo

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“New York was like the internet before the internet. A densely populated, hectic, ever-evolving place that’s always on, that you extract yourself from in order to rest, to catch your breath, and will be there in full force when you’re ready for it again. The city that never sleeps. Interconnected in a grand plexus by a series of subnetworks and subsystems. Shiny parts and seedy parts. Covered in ads, understated and overstated. Multicultural. Everybody’s here, every language is spoken. The anonymous mistaken for the rude: people here get away with saying how they feel, speaking their truths.”

Truth New York Advertising Multiculturalism Analogies Anonymity Rudeness Nyc Languages The Internet

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“IP addresses don’t matter in the afterlife.”

Afterlife The Internet Ip Addresses

Book:In Limbo

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“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”

Life Absence Present Dark Bird

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”

Writing Despair Insightful

Book:Hear the Wind Sing

Source: Hear the Wind Sing

“The internet is, like most things that matter these days, a mostly visual medium. A third of the human brain is dedicated to processing vision.”

Brain Vision The Internet Visual Mediums

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“I don’t really like being connected to the internet all the time.”

Data Smartphones The Internet Wifi

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“Every time we encounter a troll, we say, 'Another village is missing its idiot.' If the world is a Global Village, there must be plenty of Global Village idiots on the loose. They’re all trolling on social media.”

Social Media Troll The Internet

Book:The War of the Mind: Understanding Inflation and Alienation

Source: The War of the Mind: Understanding Inflation and Alienation

“Hope was part of the internet’s success. In truth, the news was always bad – but sailing on the current of connectivity was this sense you were a few clicks away from the very thing you didn’t know you were looking for.”

The Internet

Book:She's a Killer

Source: She's a Killer

“The spirit there was very decentralized. The individual was incredibly empowered. It was all based on there being no central authority that you had to go to to ask permission,” he said. “That feeling of individual control, that empowerment, is something we’ve lost.”

Web The Internet

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

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