“It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.” ThinkingWorldLongWould BeAgeTodayAbleFilmPoliticalInterestingSecretTypeInternetPeriodsThis DayEspionageLong Periods Of TimeToday's WorldWikileaksHooverJ Edgar Hoover Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.” EndsStoriesInternetPeriodsStealingFree SpeechPermission Author:Mark Cuban
“All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.” FactsTogetherLanguageCommonClassMiddleInternetPeriodsSpeechAreasNotionObsessedMiddle ClassFree SpeechOffensiveExpandingBourgeoisCleanlinessReactionariesProprietyProfaneRespectabilityDecorumLower ClassRural Areas Author:Camille Paglia
“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.” IfsDoeSometimesReasonDreamRealityAmericaEventsInternetPeriodsTasteWeaknessSatireIntoleranceFree SpeechEuphemismConjunctionsWildest Dreams Author:Robert Hughes
“Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.” FeelsKindCareersInternetPeriodsLucky Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I do have a concern however, humanity has a great way of adapting and I'm sure scientists of the future, probably after I leave this planet, earth will have a new way of dealing with the internet but I do have a concern in the transition period.” WayEarthHumanityPlanetsInternetPeriodsConcernScientistTransitionNew WaysPlanet EarthAdapting Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.” YearsHardCreativeFiveDevelopmentInternetPeriodsThirtyFive YearsDomain1960sPublic Domain Author:Noam Chomsky