April 2010
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“Now, about this Age of the Internet. It’s an exciting but strange thing to...”
– Jennifer McDonald, on the London Review of Books panel on writing in the age of the internet
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“The thing was, Monson’s book, in deploying these daggers, succeeded in eliciting...”
– Jennifer McDonald, on Ander Monson’s book, Vanishing Point, which employs daggers (†) to take the reader beyond the book.
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“Home library size has a very substantial effect on educational attainment, even...”
– M.D.R. Evans
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“Over the last several years, the Internet has evolved from being a distraction...”
– James Sturm, I’m Quitting the Internet
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“In order to get to and come back from another planet with gravity like Mars,...”
– Alexander Rose
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“Everything would, of course, go very slowly. It would take two days to reach...”
– Alain de Botton, imagining a world without airplanes
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“Disconnection is the new counterculture.”
– Nicholas Carr
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RUNNING, HUNTING →
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Walter Mossberg's iPad Review - he gives it a... →
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““…innovators, who may be dreamers today, but who hope to become very...”
– H.G. Wells, on the world brain, in 1937
That settles it! Wells invented the internet, not Gore!
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NYTimes BITS blog: "Reviewing the Site that... →
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“The real beneficiaries, however, are not you and me or the thousands who will...”
– Nicholas Negroponte on tablet computing
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