Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB. . . used to torture in order to get this data.
Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.