Thoughts on Media

  1. March 18, 2013
    Black Mirror

    Does technology amplify the ugliest aspects of humanity, or merely reveal them?

    on ethics, media, rebellion, science fiction, and technology
  2. August 30, 2012
    The Information Diet

    You are what your brain eats.

    on media and the brain
  3. December 7, 2010
    Within The Context of No Context

    We sign contracts with our attention, the terms of which we haven't read.

    on media
  4. November 12, 2010
    Eating the Dinosaur

    As a species, we have never been less human than we are right now.

    on media and values
  5. June 27, 2010
    True Enough

    Due to flaws in our perception and the money to be made by exploiting them, you have to work really hard to live in the real world nowadays, so most of us don't.

    on media and truth
  6. April 12, 2010
    Mediated

    Life is a supermarket.

    on media
  7. November 4, 2009
    Amusing Ourselves to Death

    To *muse* is to think, and just as to be amoral is to be not moral, to be amused is to be not thinking. Of the media we consume, how much of it is designed to get us thinking, and how much is designed to amuse us?

    on media

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