The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/03
From 5 years ago, but now more relevant than it ever was: [WayBack] The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
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Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. –Cardinal Richelieu
We don’t know enough about you. –Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Via:
- [WayBack] The toxic Smog of the Information Age …“Maya,” he said, “what do you know about Google and the DHS?” She stiffened as soon as he asked the question. One of the dogs began to whine. She looked around, then nodded up at the tennis courts. “Top of the light pole there; don’t look,” she said. “That’s one of our muni Wi-Fi access points. Wide-angle webcam. Face away from it when you talk.” In the grand scheme of things, it hadn’t cost Google much to wire the city with webcams. Especially when measured against the ability to serve ads to people based on where they were sitting…. – Edward Morbius – Google+
- [WayBack] “Sir, calm down, please. No, I’m not looking at your searches,” the man said in a mocking whine. “That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you read your mail and do your searching. I have a brochure explaining it. I’ll give it to you when we’re through here.”… – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+
–jeroen
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