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Another example of the legibility margin is online publishers. Take Facebook as an example. If I told you that you had to start paying $50/year to use Facebook, would you give it up?

Many people probably would, or they never would have joined in the first place. Yet, that’s how much Facebook earns from your account.

They make around $48.76 per year p... See more

Third, the universal networked library of all books will cultivate a new sense of authority. If you can truly incorporate all texts—past and present in all languages—on a particular subject, then you can have a clearer sense of what we as a civilization, a species, do and don’t know. The empty white spaces of our collective ignorance are highlighte

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File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data. In th... See more

- "the concrete practices of the tech industry now structure identity and individuality in ways that support its own hegemony. While it presents endless avenues for expression, it sees us as wholly reducible to market logic, where we are real to the degree that our consumption habits are rational. This vision of selfhood promotes uniformity and bou... See more

Des heideggériens, à commencer par Hubert Dreyfus, ont écrit plus tard sur l’Internet comme l’innovation technologique qui révèle le plus clairement ce qu’est la technique1049. Son infinie connectivité promet de rendre le monde entier stockable et disponible mais, ce faisant, prive les choses de toute espèce d’intimité et de profondeur. Tout, à com

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