Umberto Eco Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

• Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Two, Glasses

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

  Umberto Eco

  Creating, Giving, Understanding

  Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco (2011). “This is Not the End of the Book: A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac”, p.82, Random House

• The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

  Umberto Eco

  Crazy, Giving, Problem

• If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

  Umberto Eco

  Intellectual, Filters, Would Be

• A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

  Umberto Eco

  Silly, Important, Filters

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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