"As I walked through the markets of Hong Kong, staring at jade jewellery & Angry Birds paraphonalia, it occured to me that I could order everything on eBay or Amazon. The foreign land’s treasures have been globalised to a point of total consumer disinterest. The only thing that was left to consume was food & architecture…

Could it be that When you are drowning in a digital culture that says that social is everything then you might forget what makes you special? When Amazon and every ad banner online knows what you like, what happens if you forget what you like. Anti-consumption…

When you can be anywhere, you have to celebrate where you are right then and there. That’s luxury.

True affirmation of identity and uniqueness has become tricky when you are constantly forced into relationships with “friends”, Groupon deals and “other people also bought this” prompts. Perhaps travel and food, as sensorial experiences that one cannot share, will become even more prized than they are now."

"world becomes increasingly Gibsonian—Bigendian—when you’re reading the books. [examples]…<br />
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So, if Gibson was originally writing “on top of Firefox”, he’s now writing on top of Twitter…<br />
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Gibson’s been talking a lot lately about atemporality, this idea that we live in a sort of endless digital now. In “Zero History” we have an echo of “No Future”: everything compressed into the present…<br />
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Network Realism is writing that is of & about network. It’s realism because it’s so close to our present reality. A realism that posits an increasingly 1:1 relationship btwn Fiction & World. A realtime link. & it’s networked because it lives in a place that’s that’s enabled by, & only recently made possible by, our tech connectedness…<br />
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Future scholars of Network Realism will have to decide if info visualisation & projects like We Feel Fine fit…I suspect not, because I want to keep this to lit…but I suspect there’s a connection. Perhaps in data griotism or whatever we end up calling that."