1. The complexity of the medium is inversely proportional to the eloquence of the message.<\/p>\n
2. Hypertext is a more conservative medium than text.<\/p>\n
3. The best medium for the nonlinear narrative is the linear page.<\/p>\n
4. Twitter is a more ruminative medium than Facebook.<\/p>\n
5. The introduction of digital tools has never improved the quality of an art form.<\/p>\n
6. The returns on interactivity quickly turn negative.<\/p>\n
7. In the material world, doing is knowing; in media, the opposite is often true.<\/p>\n
8. Facebook’s profitability is directly tied to the shallowness of its members: hence its strategy.<\/p>\n
9. Increasing the intelligence of a network tends to decrease the intelligence of those connected to it.<\/p>\n
10. The one new art form spawned by the computer – the videogame – is the computer’s prisoner.<\/p>\n
11. Personal correspondence grows less interesting as the speed of its delivery quickens.<\/p>\n
12. Programmers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.<\/p>\n
13. The album cover turned out to be indispensable to popular music.<\/p>\n
14. The pursuit of followers on Twitter is an occupation of the bourgeoisie.<\/p>\n
15. Abundance of information breeds delusions of knowledge among the unwary.<\/p>\n
16. No great work of literature could have been written in hypertext.<\/p>\n
17. The philistine appears ideally suited to the role of cultural impresario online.<\/p>\n
18. Television became more interesting when people started paying for it.<\/p>\n
19. Instagram shows us what a world without art looks like.<\/p>\n
20. Online conversation is to oral conversation as a mask is to a face.<\/p>\n