Quotes about "Social Media & Online Culture"

We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks - even a 15-minute break every two or three hours - make us more productive in the long run. ”

One big promise of the Internet was that it would be a great democratizing force, allowing us to become exposed to new ideas that we might not otherwise encounter in our town, workplace or social circle. ”

Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When it's from a black perspective, I don't have to - they get it. ”

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. ”

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate. ”

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. ”

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds. ”

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts. ”

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today. ”

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before. ”