Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.
We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.
