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“ Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us. ”

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If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

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Computers don't kill books people do.

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The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

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