Interesting quotes

[edepot]

In the tradition of a "forum blog", I am passing on some quotes sent to me that may interest others as well...

"The Internet, however, has twisted "choice" and "access" against
themselves. It offers choice purely for its own sake. One the
Internet, choice and access lead us to more choice, and more - so
that we are buying into the concept of available choice rather than
making a specific, concrete choice. The off-line world is also
overwhelming in its availability and choices, but the physical
boundaries of space-time inexorably intervene. On the Web, space
and time barely exist as barriers to satisfaction.

And to actually choose - and then to stop looking is to limit your
experience of the Internet...A man's browser should exceed his clicks,
or what's an Internet for?

If a Bach fuge went to sleep and dreamed of being another form of
communication, it would be the Web. Every online activity leads to
another online activity."

Welcome to the Youniverse. Welcome to the world of the Internet."
--"Against The Machine - Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob"
by Lee Siegel