tech + humans + philosophy
Debbie Passey | The Conversation
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- Safari is a good enough browser
- Safari’s reading list is a good enough read later service
- Mail is a good enough email app
- Reminders is a good enough todo list - Notes is a good enough notes app
- They all come free with your laptop
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The right order to watch Star Wars is THX1138, followed by American Graffiti, followed by a New Hope.
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“It’s just an app wrapped in hardware” is a complaint that largely describes every smartphone on the planet.
“As to Bell’s talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but … its commercial value will be limited.”
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Sex is great, but have you tried deleting your Linkedin
“When you say, “I’ve been thinking about this a lot,” I hear, “I have some bad news.”
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It's accepted wisdom that we shouldn't let ourselves be defined by our failures. I can't argue with that.
But there's also a lot of danger in letting ourselves be defined by our successes.
Becoming trapped in a box of our own making.
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It's 2030. Twitter, now named Xtube Premium Pro Plus, is run by 5 employees in a bunker on Elon Musk's compound. The gaming / video / live streaming / podcast / NFT platform boasts dozens upon dozens of users every month.
The bunker doors open.
It's Musk. He is wearing a panther fur coat.
"I've got it," he rasps. "We should be a microblogging platform."
4/5 employees cheer.
Not Harold. He has seen too much.
“Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.”
