Sarah Jeong

“Because whisper networks are built on personal credibility and social capital, they often end up operating like exclusive clubs.”

“I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to hand-rear their little digital babies.”

“In the quest for perfect protection of Sony's intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.”

“Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.”

“Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted.”

“You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.”

“The belief that the law will never 'catch up' to technology is borne in part of tech exceptionalism, a libertarian elitism that derides any kind of legal or regulatory impediment as Luddism.”

“Oracle v. Google is a vast, sprawling piece of litigation over the Android platform, one where the billions of dollars at stake were the least-significant possible consequence of the lawsuit.”

“Mechanisms that prevent Keurig machines from using off-label coffee pods are annoying but relatively harmless.”

“In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.”

“When you listen to music through Spotify, you don't own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it at any time.”

“For the participants of whisper networks - often women - these networks hum below the surface. Whispers are take it or leave it. Whispers are a defense, not an offense.”

“In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.”

“The Tamagotchi, I have realized, is everything that is wrong with our smartphone era. Is this what went wrong with millennials?”