Mike Barnicle Quotes

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

We're living in a society where there's a cacophony of noise and opinion.

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

Back in the day, you could have a crap gig, and nobody would film you. Now, everybody's got an iPhone - you have a bad day, and it's going on the Internet.

There's something unique about coming of age in 2015 with the way the world is.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.