70 Quotes About Information-age

Maybe, as Mizuko said, we won't even really die, just carry on in the feedback loop we are stuck in. Instead of connecting with new things, widening our worlds, algorithms have shrunk it to a narrow chamber with mirrored walls.

The term 'infobesity' was coined in 2013 to describe the torrent of information clogging out arteries like cholesterol. It turns us into 'pancake people', ... 'Spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.

Before the invention of printing press, the problem was, lack of information, and now due to the rise of social media, it is too much information - the former leads to mental starvation and the latter to mental obesity.

We have begun to live in a world, where we eat content, drink content and breathe content, without giving a single thought to its composition and what kind of impact it has upon our lives.

Unmoderated content consumption is as dangerous as the consumption of sewage water.

The focus of social media’s business model must shift from content engagement to content quality.

The ease of life and convenience in the Internet era is indeed mesmerizing, keeping us bound, and pushing the larger questions out of the mind with its constant buzz. But it can be turned off with a toggle.

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.