“America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.” TwoMightAmericaNationsTakenModernCenturyCommunicationRevolution Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.” Has BeensBigsCenturyCommunicationInternetLateIncludingShipsRadicalSailing19th CenturyBig ChangesTelegraphRadical ChangeSailing Ships Author:Noam Chomsky
“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.” FirstsLostTechnologyStruggleConditionsCenturyCommunicationAchievementTwentiesDetermineConfusionPrintDomainFree SocietyNew TechnologyGreat AchievementElectronic Communication Book:Technologies of Freedom Source: Technologies of Freedom
“I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingArtBookRealLiteratureLinesOpinionMillionsCenturyCommunicationArt IsIncrediblesInsult21st Century Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).” BelieveKindFactsReligiousNumbersFocusCenturyCommunicationPeriodsMajorsAspectDon't BelieveIncludingVariousSignificantRadicalParadoxThinker20th CenturyProposeIndirectSignificant NumbersNon Religious Author:George Pattison