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The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threatens political and cultural authorities who believe in telling individuals what they can have rather than letting them choose for themselves.
Virginia Postrel
Political
Opportunities
Internet
Believe
Telling
Unparalleled
Exactly
Exactly What
Threatens
Rather
Individuals
Abundance
Goods
Cultural
Sources
Than
Authorities
Get
Authority
Tastes
Want
Information
Them
Themselves
Creates
Choose
Who
Letting
The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.
Virginia Postrel
Best
Culture
Competition
Internet
Diversity
Our
Philosophy
Way
Embodied
Exactly
Runs
Best Way
Net
Counter
Abundant
Operate
Foreign
Domestic
Models
Different
Information
Uniform
Ethos
Regulations
Many
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.
Virginia Postrel
Food
Law
Safety
Internet
Labeling
Rules
Promised
Cosmetic
Federal
Consumers
Supporters
Return
Established
Choice
Act
Requirements
Prescription
Medicines
There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls.
Virginia Postrel
Saying
Innovation
Censorship
Internet
Will
Argument
Clever
Policy
Around
Trump
Goes
Controls
Popular
Routes
Desire
Damage
Programmers
The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians.
Virginia Postrel
Government
History
People
Internet
Some People
Politicians
Libertarian
Significant
Tried
Some
More
Tale
Industrial
Make
Policy
Messy
However
Than
Role
The History Of
Subtle
Story
Which
Far
Plans
Played
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
Virginia Postrel
People
Internet
Find
Tails
Another
Curve
Bell
On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.
Virginia Postrel
Alone
People
Internet
Fragmentation
Other
Ourselves
Find
Net
Tails
Uncommon
Know
Accessible
Very
Common
Curve
Us
Bell
The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.
Viswanathan Anand
You
Internet
Sit
Wikipedia
Topics
Find
About
Something
Gives
Like
Look
Concepts
Read
Access
Material
Go
Subject
Mathematicians
Lot
Different
Fun
Fascinating
I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.
Vivica A. Fox
Time
Lie
People
Internet
Chemistry
Think
Meet
Spend
Would
Someone
Dates
Couple
Person
Little
Prefer
Little Time
Need
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
W. Daniel Hillis
People
Internet
Medium
Focused
Computers
Attention
Mostly
Been
Surprisingly
Itself
Little
Little Attention
Communications
Defending
It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
Wale
You
Internet
Trend
Respond
Part
Like
Because
Insult
Makes
Cool
Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.
Walt Mossberg
Day
Change
Every Day
Internet
Power
Important
Few
Rich
Every
Too
Increasing
Intrusive
Unprotected
Direction
More
Ads
Fail
Tracking
Answer
Becomes
Important Questions
Courts
Leave
Years
Questions
Lousy
Companies
Platform
Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
Walter Cronkite
Wisdom
Challenge
Internet
Promises
Enough
Our
Those
Boost
Give
Journalism
Participate
Invited
Along
Occasional
Another
Renowned
Blog
Contributions
Site
Interesting
Busier
Us
Lucky
Ever
Her
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
Walter Jon Williams
You
Yourself
Internet
Become
Community
Combination
Participating
Advertisement
Advertising
Offers
Interesting
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the Internet. But we're still very animalistic.
Wangechi Mutu
Nature
Knowledge
Technology
Amazing
Perspective
Internet
Long
Beast
Our
Flying
Animalistic
Terms
Became
Around
Scientific
Still
Amazing Things
Lot
Very
Done
Sapiens
Using
Base
Now
Things
Homo
Homo Sapiens
I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.
Warren Ellis
Internet
Thought
Think
Subculture
Lot
Than
Taught
Anyone
Bigger
Us
Lessons
Niche
Ever
I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
Warren Kole
Morning
Me
Internet
Coffee
College
Nervous
Drank
John
About
Somehow
Dates
Had
Excited
Sophomore
Industrial
How
Gotten
Cups
Did
Video
Use
Thing
The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners' ability to achieve success in preserving and protecting the Second Amendment.
Wayne LaPierre
Success
History
Achieve
Internet
Gun
Become
Preserving
Ability
Factor
Open
Major
Institution
Most
Protecting
Amendment
Owners
Second
Second Amendment
The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.
Wes Boyd
Money
Internet
Rest
Free
Party
No Idea
Had
Idea
Like
Democratic
Democratic Party
How
Doing
Normally
Then
Use
Things
Treated
Kept
I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.
Will Gluck
Try
Internet
Hatred
Mostly
Read
Because
Just
Sea
The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
Will McDonough
Future
Internet
Television
Anymore
Newspapers
Really
Radio
Electronic
I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.
Will McDonough
Internet
Will
Lost
Every
Think
States
Circulation
Lead
Almost
Journalism
Also
Due
Lot
Plagiarism
Newspaper
United
United States
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.
William Gibson
Internet
Down
Trees
Project
Out
Ongoing
Part
Since
Knowing
Without
Climbed
Been
Really
Working
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.
William Gibson
Work
Truth
You
Word
Internet
Think
Virtual
Find
More
Unreliable
Part
Real
Than
Inferior
Being
So-Called
Inherently
Large
Function
Large Part
Street
Extent
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
William J. Clinton
Good
Change
Together
People
World
Money
Internet
Power
Band
Change The World
Sums
Some
Vast
Primarily
Because
Public
Modest
Public Good
Means
Agree
The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.
William M. Daley
Today
Privacy
Strong
Protection
Internet
Websites
Resources
Exactly
Kinds
More
Announced
Industry
Real
Provide
Microsoft
Creating
Incentives
Users
Using
Actions
Initiatives
Bring
Need
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