This has been a striking repudiation of the idea that there is an online and an offline world, and that what is said online is in some way kept online. I hope that this eliminates the conception from people’s minds.
Renee DiResta, Stanford Internet Observatory, as quoted in Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill, by Kate Conger, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 6 January 2021

The world is inside out

The advent of the online world, he thought, was changing the physical one. In the past, going online had felt like visiting somewhere else. Now being online was the default: it was our Here, while those awkward “no service” zones of disconnectivity had become our There. Checking his Vancouver bank balance from an A.T.M. in Los Angeles struck him suddenly as spooky. It didn’t matter where you were in the landscape; you were in the same place in the datascape. It was as though cyberspace were turning inside out, or “everting”—consuming the world that had once surrounded it.
How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real by Josuha Rothman, New Yorker, 9 December 2019

The grungy reality of the physical world

It is surprising that despite the enormous amount of recent research on the structure, organization, and mathematics of social networks, almost none acknowledge, let alone embrace, their direct and necessary coupling to the grungy reality of the physical world. And that physical world is primarily that of the urban environment.