How The Internet Is Changing The Nature Of Knowledge

Harvard researcher David Weinberger: “In the West, knowledge begins as a winnowing process. … That idea … not by coincidence fits perfectly with the paper medium that we used for it. Paper is expensive, libraries are small, very few people can get published. … In the digital age we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.”

The Problem With The Modern Sense Of Time

“Despite our increasing reliance on the mechanical measurement of time to structure our lives, many of us find some part of us resisting it. We find it confining, too rigid perhaps to suit our natural states, and long for that looser structure of the medieval village (while retaining our modern comforts and medical advances, of course). What is behind this resistance?”

Why Portlandia Makes Fun Of Virtuous Hipsters

Series co-creator Carrie Brownstein: “I guess that they are ridiculous, but at the same time they’re things that I embrace – it’s a set of behaviors and an ideology that I enact, and that I think many of us sort of perform or follow. … [But] it takes a certain amount of good fortune, privilege and entitlement to have those things be what you’re worried about. And I think that most of us know that.”