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Andy Warhol was wrong. In the future, we wouldn’t all be famous for fifteen minutes; we’d be famous 24/7 to fifteen people. That was the new paradigm, even if the outside world didn’t realize it yet. Facebook employees—we few, we happy few—knew what world was coming, and we’d help create it.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Hive Mind Driver #3: The Caveman at the Computer Screen
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
The primary human relations—to space, time, nature, and to other people—have been subjected to a warping pressure that is something new under the sun. Those who argue that the very nature of history is change—that change is constant—are missing the point. Our era has seen an escalation of the rate of change so drastic that all possibilities of evol
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Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
Ernest Cline • Ready Player One
Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker
Cory Doctorow: How Big Tech Captured Culture | The Agenda
youtube.comtrolls’ simultaneously symbiotic and exploitative relationship to mainstream culture,