When your sentences or paragraphs go on for too long without any noticeable break in sight, readers start to wonder what point you’re making and why it’s taking so long to make it and how much longer before we can simply move on to the next idea already, since this one has been beaten to death without getting anywhere, other than winding through all the tangents with which you littered the ridiculously long and winding sentence.

(“Such an important-looking capital letter!”) and what comes last (“Why did we stop here?”). Structure your sentences accordingly.

A period emphasizes in a different (less shouty) way than an exclamation point. It’s essentially saying “the end” to each concept you describe.

Mastering punctuation’s power expands our repertoire for conveying meaning. The broader our repertoire, the more skillfully we can employ the most effective tools for each context

Do you think there should be a global norm or theory of how we arrange these values, or is there some amount of wiggle room for Americans and Europeans approaching things differently, or people in the Middle East or China approaching their values in the information society differently?

a bit more autonomy, a bit of freedom. And that’s being taken away by information technology. And so in many places, privacy is in retreat.

It’s a clear case where the state’s rights prevail over the right of individual privacy, and I say that as an advocate of privacy. We’ve got to get common sense on privacy, not fanaticism.

and the threat of what I call “technocracy.” It’s a term we don’t often use now, and I mean by technocracy not the rule of experts, but the rule of information technology, the domination of information technology over human beings, and the subordination of people to a technological imperative.

That’s what the whole socialist movement was about: A way to humanize the factory system, tame industrialization, and make sure it was steered in the direction of human welfare.

I think we need the big picture, not just individuals working on privacy, or intellectual property, or the distribution of scientific information, or this and that—you need to approach it in a holistic, integrated way. Not many people are doing that, and I’ve tried to make a start in my Normative Theory of the Information Society.

We are lacking a framework for attacking the problems of the 21st century. The Industrial Revolution created a lot of creative and systematic thinking about how society should be run.

Do learners recognize information gaps or information poverty?

Curate Do learners consciously make connections between their work and that of the greater community? Do learners evaluate their own multimedia works? Do learners evaluate content they find online before sharing with others? Do learners apply ethical practices when using media? Do learners evaluate content and develop their own expertise on a topic? Do learners collect, aggregate, and share content to develop their voice/identity/expertise on a topic?

Build and sustain intentional global and cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so as to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought; Promote culturally sustaining communication and recognize the bias and privilege present in the interactions;

It’s a shame it’s taken a pandemic for people to realize if you don’t have internet access you’re cut off from participation in society,” said Sohn, a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy.

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