Annalee Newitz Became Quotations

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.