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Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is 'Like a Mall,' and Much MoreI'm a cyborg. I'm immune to any number of lethal diseases by virtue of technology. I'm sitting on top of this enormous pyramid of technology that starts with flint hand-axes and finds me in a hotel in Austin, Texas, talking to someone thousands of miles away on a telephone and that's just what we do. At this point, we don't have the option of not being technological creatures.The Zuckerberg Revolution
That makes Zuckerberg the anti-Gutenberg. He has facilitated a typography in which complexity is all but impossible and meaninglessness reigns supreme. To the extent that ideas matter, we are no longer amusing ourselves to death. We are texting ourselves to death.
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