Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line – to adjust to the demands of different...

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They’re very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has...

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much...

There’s the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they’re giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That’s something that probably will need...

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating “compulsive media” to get you to click things more.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

Whether it’s Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked...

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another’s point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel...

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of...

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and Facebook are now – how do we get more people...

To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult...

It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it’s very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of...

I think it’s easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn’t make a good citizen.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the...

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists...

Rather than saying people aren’t interested when things don’t take off, you should take it on yourself to say, ‘I’m not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it...

There’s the part that I just want what I want, and I don’t want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that’s the longer-term, aspirational self...

Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life–much of whic you might not trust your friends with.

I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

1973 Fair Information Practices:- You should know who has your personal data, what data they have, and how it is used.- You should be able to prevent information collected about you for one purpose from...

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn.

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there’s a lot of pressure.