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“Facebook, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica, Amazon, the Internet Research Agency, Google: these are, every one, the children of Simulmatics” –

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020
Simulmatics is a relic of its time, an artifact of the Eisenhower-Kennedy-Nixon Cold War;...
Tagged Amazon, Cambridge Analytica, data, Facebook, Google, Palantir, Simulmatics, technology, the Internet Research Agency |
Semantics, Technology

“The word” smart “is flattering to both the objects and their users, even as it threatens to become a hazy banality”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 July 2016
In the land rush to digitize the world, the home is the new frontier....
Tagged Language, Semantics, smart, technology |
Religion, Technology

“Religions have a particular habit of collecting yesterday’s technologies and holding on to them long after they’ve faded from use and collective memory”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 March 2016
Religions have a particular habit of collecting yesterday’s technologies and holding on to them...
Tagged Religion, technology |
Technology

“When a technology does die out in all places but one, something very special happens…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 March 2016
When a technology does die out in all places but one, something very special...
Tagged technology |
Technology

“Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions don’t involve an orderly transition…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 October 2015
Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions don’t involve an...
Tagged Social Revolution, technology |
Internet

“An individual with a camera or a keyboard is now a nonprofit of one, and self-publishing is now the normal case”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 August 2015
An individual with a camera or a keyboard is now a nonprofit of one,...
Tagged Internet, Literacy, technology |
Business

“The difficulty in starting companies is not just about finding the right technology, but also getting the timing right”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 June 2015
The difficulty in starting companies is not just about finding the right technology, but...
Tagged Business, Entrepreneurship, technology |
Technology

“The success of Yo revealed a lot about Silicon Valley ideology: For all the changing-the-world talk, novelty frequently outweighs functionality”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 June 2015
Silicon Valley’s single-use obsession found its most absurd expression last summer in the infamous...
Tagged Silicon Valley, technology |
Culture, Technology

“…there is no more urgent task for American intellectuals and writers than to think critically about the salience, even the tyranny, of technology in individual and collective life”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2015
Aside from issues of life and death, there is no more urgent task for...
Tagged Culture, technology |
Culture

“The new devices do not in themselves authorize a revision of the standards of evidence and argument and style that we championed in the old devices”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 February 2015
Every technology is used before it is completely understood. There is always a lag...
Tagged Culture, technology |
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