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“Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the same age. Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about new...”
“Well, when it became obvious that magic was going to wreck the computer networks, people tried to preserve portions of the Internet. They took snapshots of their servers and sent the data to a cent...”
“He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.”
“I mean, all this stuff you're involved in, it's all gossip. It's people talking about each other behind their backs. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comm...”
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.”
“Creating our own realities is nothing new, but now it’s easier than ever to become trapped in echo chambers of our own making.”
“Internet," she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.”
“To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.”
“That's the thing about the internet: it doesn't simply help us find the best thing out there; it has helped to produce the idea that there is a best thing, and, if we search hard enough, we can fin...”
“He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and “the Singularity’s chosen avatar,”
“Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for what Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping games, jerking off, stream...”
“It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.”
“(I'm not online.) I don’t have a fax. I don’t go in for any of that stuff. The typewriter is as far as I went.”
“It’s easy to fall in love online with someone you’d slide away from on a bus stop bench. A little too damn easy.”
“Hey, that’s why they invented the Internet, hermanita. To talk about weird shit and download porn.”
