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“More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.”

People World Firsts Country Hands Values Culture Information Tvs Internet Phones Other Countries Mobile Validity Other Cultures Mobile Phones Second Hand First Hand Experience

Author:Nitin Sawhney

“Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.”

Doe Culture Brain Information Becoming Layers Multiple Kinder Compact Hemisphere Wiring

Author:Leonard Shlain

“A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.”

“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.”

People Want Desire Choices Culture Sex Influence Media Information Safe Computer Flow Investment Consumers Corporate Range Acquisition Nuance Convergence

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.”

Men Wells Feelings Earth Culture Information Activity Useless Bores Humane Scrap

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment.”

Needs Used Culture Information Entertainment Diets Feds Chocolate Spoons Coke Cherries Caffeine Diet Coke

Author:Bill Maher

“When your staff are 'information-rich', their information can make you rich!”

Culture Rich Information Staff Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?”

Book States Culture Space Novel Knowing Achieve Information Movement Reader Computer Conscious Mood Unconscious Scrap Contemplative Stimulation

Author:T.C. Boyle