Begum Moralioglu

“Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two

“The problem is compounded by the complexity of a computer program, where biases may be too deeply embedded to be detected by anyone”
― Jonathan Keats, You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future

“When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that’s no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“VR is programmable imagination.”
― Gabriel Rene, The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World