Digital Minimalism

the novelist Zadie Smith
: Vijaysree Venkatraman, “Freedom Isn’t Free,”
Science, February 1, 2013,
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2013/02/freedom-isnt-free
.
“There’s an even deeper irony”
: Venkatraman, “Freedom Isn’t Free.”
IBM was selling automatic tabulating machines
: For more on IBM’s
early history, see 
http://www-
03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1890.html
. Note that IBM did not
take on the name International Business Machines until 1924.
An early print ad for the Apple II
: Buster Hein, “12 of the Best Apple
Print Ads of All Time (Gallery),” Cult of Mac, October 17, 2012,
https://www.cultofmac.com/196454/12-of-the-best-apple-print-ads-of-all-
time-gallery
.
“If you [look at my Twitter feed,] you won’t see a lot of dog meme
accounts”
: Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor, S.I. Newhouse School of
Public Communication, phone interview with author, January 26, 2018.
Das Slow Media Manifest
: Das Slow Media Manifest, Slow Media
Institut, 
http://slow-media-institut.net/manifest
.
The English translation
: The Slow Media Manifesto, English translation,
Slow Media Institute, 
http://en.slow-media.net/manifesto
.
“brought profound changes”
: Slow Media Manifesto.
“appropriate reaction”
: Slow Media Manifesto.
embrace the concept of “slow”
: Slow Media Manifesto.
“Slow media cannot be consumed”
: Slow Media Manifesto.
Americans tend to embrace the “low information diet”
: Timothy
Ferriss first popularized the term “low information diet” in The 4-Hour
Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (New
York: Crown, 2007).