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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." Hunter S. Thompson

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"We’re putting our brains into neutral, and revving the engine. We’re digitally dithering, clicking on links and swimming through a torrent of useless garbage being thrown at us by idiots and self-promoters, pundits and PR flacks and marketing people. We’re immersing ourselves in games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, obsessing about earning energy packs, spending billions of dollars on virtual gardening tools. We’;re turning the world around us into a videogame, using sites like Foursquare to tell our friends where we’re eating lunch, and competing to see who can become ‘mayor’ of some restaurant. Meanwhile, in the midst of all this, Glenn Beck has become an influential television commentator, and Sarah Palin is a credible candidate for president in 2012. You think this is a coincidence?

No way. What’s happening is this: we are being so overwhelmed by the noise and junk zooming past us that we’re becoming immune to it. We’ve become a nation of Internet-powered imbeciles, with an ever-lower threshold for inanity.

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Lyons, on why Obama’s right on that whole ‘put down your iPad’ thing. (via newsweek)

Whilst I disagree with Lyons’ (and Obama’s) assertion that devices like the iPad are responsible - the devices are merely conduits for content - I completely agree with this statement. People need to realise that, when it comes to ‘services’ like Facebook, Foursquare, even Twitter to some degree, the user is not the customer. The user is the product.

Wednesday, May 12th 2010 9:43am

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