Auteur/autrice : noflux (Page 446 of 633)

Digital worlds are constructed of, by, and for speech; within them, it is increasingly difficult to tell where one form of speech ends and another begins. The Like-as-speech ruling recognizes that. In some ways, it celebrates it. And it also justifies the decisions made by a group of guys those 200-ish years ago. The brilliance of the Bill of Rights is that it is, in its way, very of-the-Internet: Its logic appreciates, implicitly, the power of the network. Its authors acknowledged their own ignorance. They knew they couldn’t anticipate the telegraph or the telephone or the Internet, so they inscribed their protections in a way that would accommodate an unknown future. They could not anticipate Facebook; in another way, though, they totally anticipated Facebook. Which is certainly something to Like.

(via Portland, Oregon: The Age of a City)

Les gens pensent que nous essayons d’être cool. Cela n’a jamais été mon but. Je suis la personne la moins cool qui soit. Nous avons pratiquement dix ans. Nous ne sommes plus un phénomène de ‘niche’ ; ce genre de profil cool, c’est fini pour nous. L’électricité, c’était peut-être cool quand elle a fait son apparition. Mais rapidement, les gens ont cessé d’en parler parce que ce n’était plus le nouveau truc. La vraie question, à ce stade, c’est : est-ce qu’il y a moins de gens qui allument la lumière parce que c’est moins cool ?

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