This document contains a collection of quotes and passages on various topics including the internet, communication, relationships, and the future. It discusses how the internet is still in its early stages and evolving. One quote notes that the opportunity presented by God does not wake those who are sleeping, implying people must be proactive to seize opportunities. The document encourages building feedback loops to provide clarity around emerging technologies and their implications.
Love is a gift of forever; it is no one's to take away.
1. Love is a gift of forever; it
is no one's to take away.
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1:49:38, Thu Aug 16, 2012
2. “ The Web as I
envisaged it, we have
not seen it yet. The
future is still so much
bigger than the past. ”
—Tim Berners-Lee
3. Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.
· This model of the hyper threading networks that engulf
our planet conjures the same ontological responses.
· First music, then books, new and magazines, then film &
TV.
· We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the
Internet revolution.
· It is a place seemingly so insignificant that even the
KGB could not be bothered to map it in the height of the
cold war.
4. We start as fools and become wise through
experience.
Enable intuitive platforms
5. The opportunity that God sends does not wake up
him who sleeps.
· Which served as the tag-line of Microsoft's first global
image advertising campaign.
· Let's build some critical feedback loops along these
confusing trajectories.
· We, the users, need this more than ever and we will pay
you to filter for, with and even through us!
· The relative importance of a node does not stem from its
specific features but from its ability to contribute to the
network�s goals.
6. “ The real problem is
not whether machines
think but whether men
do. ”
—B. F. Skinner
7. We lose the certain things, while we seek the
uncertain ones.
· He describes that effective communication depends on
a shared body of knowledge between those who are
communicating.
· Here is a tough one for you: do you still need these
lobbyists?
· Finding and being found is what will make or break you.
· Equally, how can this have wider implications for how
we perceive our sense of self and our relationship with
others.
8. In conclusion
· Reinvent proactive technologies
· Expedite compelling eyeballs
· Optimize efficient supply-chains
· and remember: One who chases after two hares won't
catch even one.
10. Credits
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· New Aesthetic, New Anxieties - David M. Berry,
Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle
Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O'Reilly and Jose
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