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“I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of emphaty and humanity in that process.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget
“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.”
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“Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think.”
― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
“Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget
“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget
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