Brad Dunn

“Psychological studies show that specific gaming designs such as badges, leaderboards and performance graphs can be powerful tools to maximise customer participation and brand loyalty.”
― Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

“Like the coronavirus pandemic, the current infodemic is a global phenomenon. We need to tackle it on an international level to avoid adding a third layer to this worldwide crisis: a societal one.”
― Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

“In some ways, this is the ultimate goal of theoretical physics: to find a way to take all the complicated messy stuff we see around us and rearrange it into something pretty and compact and simple that just looks complicated because of our weird low-energy perspective.”
― Katie Mack, The End of Everything

“These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time. This can happen when one is finding one’s way through a blizzard of text messages; it can happen when interacting with a robot. I feel witness for a third time to a turning point in our expectations of technology and ourselves. We bend to the inanimate with new solicitude. We fear the risks and disappointments of relationships with our fellow humans. We expect more from technology and less from each other.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other