“In real-life dating studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction.”— James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
“Reaching out to evangelicals doesn’t mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are. The second thing is that there’s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party. It’s tied to the demographic…”— Michael Wear, theatlantic.com
“With this view of technology, any particular tech only matters as a means to act most directly and/or most efficiently on these fundamental truths. It generates big questions about our current and future evolution as a species. And ultimately, I think this is a test of potential impact for any new t…”— Rebekah Cox, artypapers.com
“Another way of thinking about technology is to think about any given technology’s core purpose, it’s fundamental truth. When you strip everything away what are those few things that remain true throughout every incremental technological advancement. It’s no longer a staircase on a timeline, but a si…”— Rebekah Cox, artypapers.com
“There a lot of ways to think about and approach technology. One way is to visualize stairs and each new technology is a step. Those steps climb upward to some unknown but presumed better end. Here’s an example: A step may be the most basic form of a wheel, then the next step would be something built…”— Rebekah Cox, artypapers.com
“We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.”— Stephen Hawking, theguardian.com
“Since there are now more people with a telephone than access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa, this will shortly mean nearly everyone on our increasingly crowded planet will not be able to escape the inequality.”— Stephen Hawking, theguardian.com
“News is mainly entertainment. Its primary objective is to keep you watching so that it makes money. What better than negativity and apocalyptic scenarios to keep your attention?”— Michal Bohanes, medium.com
“When I give talks, people often stand up and say ‘The problem is poverty is global capitalism, that’s what we need to change. Why are you talking about these band-aid solutions?’ I always ask them, how do we actually do that? How do we actually get rid of global capitalism? Nobody’s given me even ha…”— Peter Singer, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“The tech millionaires have no flair, but they will live forever.”— Hamilton Nolan, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“No matter how advanced and polished these platforms are, once users get their hands on it, the platform will trend toward shit.”— Brian Feldman, nymag.com
“It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience.”— Evan Spiegel, wsj.com
“We have no idea what we don't know. Or what we'll eventually learn, or what might be true despite our perpetual inability to comprehend what the truth is. It's impossible to understand the world of today until today has become tomorrow.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all k…”— Jess C. Scott, amazon.com
“Emojis are little cartoons you text instead of words. Instead of saying, ‘What up, boo?’ you can type ‘What up’ and then a cute little ghost because that means boo. There’s even a little Indian guy, but he has a turban on, which I think is racist. But the Asian guy also has a racist hat on. And it’s…”— Tom Haverford, amazon.com
“I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the downfall of youth.”— Ernest Cline, books.google.com
“In a way, these old role-playing games had been the first virtual-reality simulations, created long before computers were powerful enough to do the job. In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule…”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Becaus…”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com