The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between you are what you click and you are what you share.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Culture Internet Internet Culture Psychology Society Sociology Technology

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

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Curiosity Dissonance Learning

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 environments and modalities – is one of human cognition's most astonishing traits. Artificial intelligence has yet to come anywhere close.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Assimilation Critical Thinking Filtering Thinking

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

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Awareness Curiosity

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 data every two days

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Data Information Explosion Internet Technology

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 but separate universes.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Citizenship Democracy Dialogue Polarization

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 the unknown.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Closemindedness Curiosity

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Clutter Credibility Distraction Internet Media Social Media

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

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Idolatry Internet Addiction Media Social Media

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

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Covetousness Materialism Merchandising

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.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Internet Privacy

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 being used for others.- You should be able to correct inaccurate information about you.- Your data should be secure...while it's illegal to use Brad Pitt's image to sell a watch without his permission, Facebook is free to use your name to sell one to your friends.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Data Mining Internet Internet Privacy Internet Security Online Security

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

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Bias Internet

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 locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Past Media Internet

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 or impossible.

~ Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser Shoes Identity Yourself