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A lot of people will seek to make
information prosthetics, but journalists need to think
about amplification. - 1995
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It's hard to change information
in books, but if we have everything online, then a
somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the
thing - which is what I think is what we have - gives us
1984. - 1995
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I was thinking about ecological
computing ... Pretty soon we're going to have to grow
software, and we should start learning how to do that. We
should have software that won't break when something
is wrong with it. As a friend of mine once said, if you
try to make a Boeing 747 six inches longer, you have a
problem; but a baby gets six inches longer 10 or more
times during its life, and you never have to take it down
for maintenance. - 1995
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Another way to think of roadkill on
the information highway will be the billions who will
forget there are offramps to destinations other than
Hollywood, Las Vegas, the local bingo parlor, or shiny
beads from a shopping network. Not couch potatoes but
mouse potatoes! It's not the wonderful things they
could do with new media, it's what they will be
convinced they should do. This is a new tragedy in the
making. No democracy that is less than 10 percent
literate can survive in the driving forces of society.
Television should be the last mass communications medium
to be naively designed and put into the world without a
surgeon general's warning! - 1995
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