TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.
The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.
There's no such thing as information overload, there's only filter failure.
Early on someone said, "Twitter is fun but it isn't useful. Ev said, "Neither is ice cream." So what if it's just fun?
Prior to the Internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
The internet. Can we trust in that? Of course not. Give it six months and we'll probably discover Google's sewn together by orphans in sweatshops. Or that Wi-Fi does something horrible to your brain, like eating your fondest memories and replacing them with drawings of cross-eyed bats and a strong smell of puke.
Don't just party. Save the internet. Lobby. Make media.
Fundamentally, privacy is about having control over how information flows. It's about being able to understand the social setting in order to behave appropriately…. When they feel as though control has been taken away from them or when they lack the control they need to do the right thing, they scream privacy foul.