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‘The numbers are staggering. Someone born in 1960 has watched something like 50,000 hours of television already.’

Let’s put bad writing to work

Where has the rational and balanced “netizen” gone?

‘These days, watching an entire porn DVD is a marathon undertaking that requires as much suspension of disbelief as your average teeny-bopper vampire film’

Sarah Palin Glen Beck Rush Limbaugh Michael Moore Tea Party

Mr. Otlet’s Marvellous Mundaneum

‘Human-flesh search engines – renrou sousuo yinqing – have become a Chinese phenomenon…’

‘In this way, and for this reason, the novel is the vital antidote to the mentality that the Internet promotes.’

Predictions of the Next Big Internet Thing

‘Could there be a fitter representation of copyright’s contemporary plight than the fingers of a Google technician obscuring Kant’s defence of writer’s rights?’

The Edge Annual Question 2010: How is the internet changing the way you think?

Cast aside thy Virtual Reality HMD and gloves!

…the horrific problems of the “Victorian Internet” suggest that government overreach isn’t the only thing to fear’