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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
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anger-management
civics
envy
internet
playerhaters
the-internet
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
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alcohol
americans
bar
bourbon
change
changes
drinking
electronic-books
electronic-revolution
electronic-software
electronics
new-age
recession
sarcasm
technology
the-future
the-internet
the-past
the-public
the-recession
tv
video-games
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Gillian Flynn |
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The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyper-space is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself.
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social-media
technology
the-internet
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Jean Baudrillard |