Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Robert L. Peters (via Justin Alber)
The internet isn’t your pony such that you can support free speech and expect it not to have political consequences.
Zeynep Tufekci of U-Maryland and technosociology.org
Epiphany No 6: It’s all about quantity. Just like you, I’m drowning in my riches. I’ve got more music on my drives than I’ll ever be able to listen to in the next ten lifetimes. As a matter of fact, records that I’ve been craving for years (such as the complete recordings of Jean Cocteau, which we just posted on Ubu) are languishing unlistened-to. I’ll never get to them either, because I’m more interested in the hunt than I am in the prey. The minute I get something, I just crave more. And so something has really changed – and I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed have become profoundly more intriguing than the cultural artifact itself. What we’ve experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we’ve come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine.
Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of UBU.WEB
The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Article
(via notational)
(via notational)
Source: thewire.co.uk
I don’t want to publish these MBA posts in yesterday’s technology. I want to publish them in tomorrow’s technology. And I want them to be free and available forever to anyone with an internet connection.
Fred Wilson, in a post discussing why he won’t publish his weekly MBA Mondays posts in book form.
