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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

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I'm an advocate of human nature.

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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

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If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

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People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

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America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 3rd, 1960

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