I felt warm and safe following her thin blue line.
It was unnerving at first, but then a relief.
Life is a math problem, and I had a calculator.
Until that moment, I had thought that the magic of the information age was that it allowed us to know more, but then I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants — silicon memory systems, collaborative online filters, consumer preference algorithms and networked knowledge. We can burden these servants and liberate ourselves.
Online content? I have externalized it. Now I just log on to MemeStreams and it tells me what I like.
That's David Brooks.
That last part? I paraphrased, but he does end the column with a comment about memes.
