February 2012
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The End Of Cyberflânerie.
“[…] if today’s Internet has a Baron Haussmann, it is Facebook. Everything that makes cyberflânerie possible — solitude and individuality, anonymity and opacity, mystery and ambivalence, curiosity and risk-taking — is under assault by that company. And it’s not just any company: with 845 million active users worldwide, where Facebook goes, arguably, so goes the Internet.”
—Evgeny Morozov, on...
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If intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe … dialogue would...
– Michael W. Busch of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at the University of California, Los Angeles, adding, “You should think of METI messages” — referring to messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence rather than searching — “as being like time capsules, rather than like telephone calls.”
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