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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
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  2. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.
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  3. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    Chance favors the connected mind."
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  4. Neal Stephenson _ Cryptonomicon

    Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.
    book-quotehumorwwiiinternet

  5. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    I kept remembering something Michael Fertik had said to me at the Village Pub in Woodside. 'The biggest lie,' he said, 'is "The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet.
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  6. Robert D. Putnam _ Bowling Alone: The Collapse

    Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
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  7. Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being

    It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.
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  8. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity." J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor,"The Computer as a Communication Device," Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.
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  9. Thomas Pynchon _ Bleeding Edge

    When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there's one story about finding this huge fuckin opening at the top of the world, this deep whirlpool that'd take you down and in, like a black hole, no way to escape. These days you look at the surface Web, all that yakking, all the goods for sale, the spammers and spielers and idle fingers, all in the same desperate scramble they like to call an economy. Meantime, down here, sooner or later someplace deep, there has to be a horizon between coded and codeless. An abyss.""That's what you're looking for?""Some of us are." Avatars do not do wistful, but Maxine catches something. "Others are trying to avoid it. Depends what you're into.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ MaddAddam

    The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.
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  11. Rick Riordan _ The Sea of Monsters

    Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-""You invented the Internet?", Martha said., George said."It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats.
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  12. William Kamkwamba _ The Boy Who Harnessed the

    Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, "William, have you ever seen the Internet?""No."In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen."This is Google," he said. "You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?""Windmill."In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined.
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