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Dave Eggers

The Circle

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  • Eugenia Ivanovahas quoted5 years ago
    Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know—they’d trade it all to know they’ve been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.”
  • lucifhas quoted6 years ago
    “Well, I did. That’s how I got to where I am now. It’s all about planning and it’s all about follow-through.”
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity. You look at your paper brochure, and that’s where it ends. It ends with you.
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    it seems to me sometimes I’ve entered some inverted zone, some mirror world where the dorkiest shit in the world is completely dominant. The world has dorkified itself.”
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    mean, all this stuff you’re involved in, it’s all gossip. It’s people talking about each other behind their backs. That’s the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you? Maybe that was it. It was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted. And if Francis wanted any or all of that information, why couldn’t he just ask her?
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    the actual buying habits of actual people were now eminently mappable and measurable, and the marketing to those actual people could be done with surgical precision.
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into the darkness.
  • Mina Vhas quoted7 years ago
    It was a testament to Annie’s inner will, some mysterious and core sense of destiny
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