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[T]he inability to think critically and distinguish between satire and something that is truly “oppressive” is extremely dangerous — at least, as far as our future as a nation and a free society is concerned.
—Stephen Colbert & the Limitations of Twitter (via kateoplis)
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We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV—which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite—the people who go into the Metaverse, basically—who understand that information is power and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.
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Hiro Protagonist
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
pg 406
(via joshuaejudd)
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I’ve been challenged by friends on Facebook to write a “not boring” piece that explains a successful pop song using music theory.
—“Skin Tight Jeans and Syncopation” By Owen Pallett in Slate.
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Meanwhile, video games and social media will combine to create a world in which you unlock exciting advantages in real life by accruing followers and influence. Every major city will house a glamorous gentrified enclave to which only successful social brand identities (or “people” as they used to be known) with more than 300,000 followers will be permitted entry, and a load of cardboard boxes and dog shit on the outside for everybody else. From within the gated community, the sound of cocktail glasses and chuckling will ring out and everyone will feel terribly pleased with themselves until 12 August 2023, when the sun will drop out of the sky and fry billions to death.
—Charlie Brooker (via elvira)
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Mayor @Michael_Nutter in Rome. #bringthepopetophilly pic.twitter.com/wHiCVJF21j
— David Maialetti (@davidmaialetti) March 24, 2014
