There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.