Quotes About Internet

I also think people didn't truly understand the Internet back then, if indeed they can be said to understand it now.

Sometimes, you fact-check and research the congressman's speeches. The year is 1999, and you seem to be the only one in the office who knows how to perform an Internet search properly. "You're a wizard, Aviva," says the supervisor.

[I am] not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.

The idea that there were documents and recordings that couldn't be found online had never really occurred to her.

Trying to suppress atheistic thought on the internet does nothing to address the causes of people's religious doubts and may actually increase their curiosity. People would not be seeking out this material unless they felt it had some relevance to their own situation and attempts at censorship imply a fear that religion cannot win the argument on evidence and reasoning alone.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003. By 2015, 76 exabytes of data will travel across the Internet every year.

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham conceived of his "panopticon" in the late 1700s as a way to build cheaper prisons. His idea was a prison where every inmate could be surveilled at any time, unawares. The inmate would have no choice but to assume that he was always being watched, and would therefore conform. This idea has been used as a metaphor for mass personal data collection, both on the Internet and off.

Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.

Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices at 10 billion.

Mug shot extortion sites turn this sort of thing into a business. Mug shots are public record, but they're not readily available. Owners of mug shot sites acquire the photos in bulk and publish them online, where everybody can find them, then charge individuals to remove their photos from the sites.

I used to say that Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than my wife does. But that doesn't go far enough. Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet for two primary reasons: people like free, and people like convenient. The truth is, though, that people aren't given much of a choice. It's either surveillance or nothing, and the surveillance is conveniently invisible so you don't have to think about it.

The world now knows that US telcos give the NSA access to the Internet backbone and that US cloud providers give it access to user accounts.

Worldwide, Google has the capacity to store 15 exabytes.

The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service.

our personal information is being bought and sold without our knowledge and consent.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet for two primary reasons: people like free, and people like convenient.

Data is the exhaust of the information age.

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM CONTINUES TO DRIVE THE INTERNET

We're still in the honeymoon phase of connectivity. Governments and corporations are punch-drunk on our data, and the rush to connect everything is driven by an even greater desire for power and market share.

An Internet of Things is not a consumer society. It's a materialised network society. It's like a Google or Facebook writ large on the landscape.  Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.

Google created Google+ as its effort to steal Facebook's oxygen, but it turns out that social networks aren't commodities.

The internet, although beloved by all including Al Qaeda, went straight from barbarism to decadence without ever encountering a civilisation. It was never utopian, although it was free. Its lawyers are patent trolls. Its political parties are flash mobs in the streets. Its wealthy are nouveau-rich cranks. Its poor are a tidal wave of Third World young people. The Twenty-Teens are quite an interesting cultural period.