918 Quotes About Internet

But the appearance of a more level playing field is not the fact of it, and everything that happens on the internet bounces and refracts.

I could see they were connected to something that had immense power over them. This was what happened when the mindspace was the internet, I thought. One loses one's sense of self. One's mind can go anywhere. And at the same time, the mind becomes lame when it is connected to something so consuming.

Life is just like internet bandwidthWhat do you save the bandwidth for?ज़िन्दगी बैंडविड्थ की तरह हैबैंडविड्थ बचा के क्या करोगे?

Self-declared intellectuals, and those who believed themselves to be concerned with the sanctity of books and culture, commonly dismissed the internet, in its entirety, as a sphere of the lowbrow and amateur—when they bothered to acknowledge it. To them it was all junk, all grubby and artless.

We were fortunate when the COVID-19 pandemic hit that internet shopping had matured.

The internet product review system is under the influence of vendors that provide gifts for good reviews.

Technology was gnawing into relationships, community, identity, the commons. Maybe nostalgia was just an instinctual response to the sense that materiality was disappearing from the world.

The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn't spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who's having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit.

Despite habitual protests by civil servants and politicians that no such process is under way, the tortured and slow death of Internet privacy in the West, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States, is a sad – albeit visible – reality and is probably inevitable.