Leonie

“Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook’s former vice president of user growth, was quoted in the New Yorker saying Facebook was “destroying how society works—no civil discourse, no coöperation, misinformation, mistruth.” Palihapitiya said his children were “not allowed to use this shit.”
― Stephen Kurczy, The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

“Through the lens of our techno-normative values, the cultural significance of a dead zone is a mistake, an error to be corrected, a gap in service or infrastructure that must be addressed,”
― Stephen Kurczy, The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

“The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can’t anymore. I don’t know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“So much of the digital world was designed to make us feel dissatisfied, to mine our thoughts for marketable content that can be sold back in the form of Google ads and Amazon one-click purchases. I don’t want to live in that world, even if it means I occasionally get lost driving”
― Stephen Kurczy, The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence