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Have you ever made love to a truly great woman? And when you do you feel true and beautiful passion and for at least at that moment you loose your fear of death?
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respect for death. All cowards come from not loving and not loving well, which is the same thing.
– From Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
– Franz Kafka
Foto: Steve Weaver
The Internet has gone through fits and starts – in particular the dot com crash of 2000 disillusioned many – but every year we see it transform industries that previously sauntered along blissfully denying its existence. Already transformed: music, news, advertising, telecom. Being transformed: finance, commerce, TV & movies, real estate, politics & government. Soon to be transformed (among many others): healthcare, education, energy.
Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will. People, companies, investors and even countries can’t stop this transformation. The only choice you have is whether you join the side of innovation and progress or you don’t.
Chris Dixon, Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.
Quizá haya por ahí algún morboso preguntándose qué nos dieron para cenar. Yo se lo cuento, no hay problema, es muy sencillo. Fue plato único: miedo. El miedo lo impregnaba todo. Miedo al presente, miedo al porvenir, miedo a la gente (sobre todo a la gente joven), miedo a la rebelión de los públicos, miedo a la Red. Siento decir que no percibí ninguna voluntad de cambiar el rumbo, de mirar a otros sitios, de escuchar o imaginar alternativas que no pasen simplemente por insistir con la Ley Sinde o similares. Sólo palpé ese miedo reactivo que paraliza la imaginación (política pero no sólo) para abrir y empujar otros futuros. Ese miedo que lleva aparejado un conservadurismo feroz que se aferra a lo que hay como si fuera lo único que puede haber. Un miedo que ve enemigos, amenazas y traidores por todas partes.
– Amador Fernández-Savater, coeditor de Acuarela Libros, invitado a cenar con la ministra González-Sinde y otras figuras de la industria cultural española, contó en su crónica las impresiones de aquella reunión.
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“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I’m a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.”
– Julian Assange on SNL
In a crisis, people need to feel like soldiers, not victims; information breeds confidence, silence breeds fear
Escrito por Aaron Sorkin y dicho por el personaje de C.J. Cregg en El Ala Oeste, 3×09, «The Women of Qumar»
If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.
[Si no estás pagando por algo, no eres el cliente; eres el producto que están vendiendo]