Michael Harris

Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral.
—Melvin Kranzberg

SOON enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet.

The very fecundity of the press, its ability to free up content and make it cheaply available to the masses, made it a danger to the established powerhouse of the Catholic Church and a serious destabilizer of culture at large.

We forget the games that childhood boredom forged because boredom itself has been outlawed.

technologies produce wonderful abbreviations, quickenings in our lives—and have done since our earliest ancestors looked down at their naked bodies and thought, Surely we can do better than this.

The phone is easy, people are hard.

“The medium is the message.” What you use to interact with the world changes the way you see the world.

we must, like Neo, awaken

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
—Søren Kierkegaard

So I texted my boyfriend, long distance, because the experience wouldn’t be real until I had shared it, confessed my “status.”