“The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.” LosesEconomyEffectsInternetNormalConsequenceBasesMediumsRelyBroadsProtectedNormal LifeMonitoring Author:Edward Snowden
“I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.” PeopleThinkingHumansSometimesBigsAgeInformationInternetNormalPagesGainsProductivityLike MePlotLoadInformation AgeWeb Page Author:Scott Adams
“It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.” NamesInternetNormalMalesGenderScreens Author:Arthur Chu
“When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since.” IfsThinkingKnowsIdeasStatesMomentsAbleCarInternetProveNormalMessagesAdvertisingHeyGoogleProfitableClicksDeliveringRight MomentPrimacy Author:Tim Wu
“When the internet came along, everybody said it would mean the death of television, newspapers. There is a dip, and it comes back to a new normal. We're in the dip; we're waiting to see what the new normal is.” MeanSaidWaitingTelevisionInternetNormalNewspapersDipNew Normal Author:Maria Rodale
“The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.” IfsSeemsMagicInternetProtectNormalCriticalSentencesScrutinyMagic Words Author:Nathan Myhrvold