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\"inchworm\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[first series<\/a>, 2012]<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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 \u2013 the videogame \u2013 is the computer\u2019s 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

[second series<\/a>, 2013]<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0Recommendation engines are the best cure for hubris.<\/p>\n

22. Vines would be better if they were one second shorter.<\/p>\n

23. Hell is other selfies.<\/p>\n

24. Twitter has revealed that brevity and verbosity are not always antonyms.<\/p>\n

25. Personalized ads provide a running critique of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

26. Who you are is what you do between notifications.<\/p>\n

27. Online is to offline as a swimming pool is to a pond.<\/p>\n

28. People in love leave the sparsest data trails.<\/p>\n

29. \u00a0YouTube fan videos are the living fossils of the original web.<\/p>\n

30.\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg is the Grigory Potemkin of our time.<\/p>\n

[third series]<\/p>\n

31.\u00a0Every point on the internet is a center of the internet.<\/p>\n

32. On Twitter, one’s sense of solipsism intensifies as one’s follower count grows.<\/p>\n

33. A thing\u00a0contains infinitely more information than its\u00a0image.<\/p>\n

34. A book has many pages; an ebook has one page.<\/p>\n

35. If a\u00a0hard drive is a soul, the cloud is the oversoul.<\/p>\n

36. A self-driving car is a contradiction in terms.<\/p>\n

37. The essence of an event is the ghost in the recording.<\/p>\n

38. A\u00a0Snapchat message becomes legible as\u00a0it vanishes.<\/p>\n

39. When we turn on a GPS\u00a0system, we become\u00a0cargo.<\/p>\n

40. Google searches us.<\/p>\n

Image: Abbey Studer<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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