Michael Crichton Quotes

I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.

I live on the Internet.

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

I've always written observations on the world, and now there's two of them. The virtual world is a new thing, and it doesn't really exist, but people are in it a lot.

That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.

I've never been on Facebook. My page is run for me. It is the same with Twitter.

I'm not so radical about Twitter, but I think it's sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life.

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

In 2017, I enjoyed my time on the Internet more than doing things in real life.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.