I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing t…

Douglas Rushkoff
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I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2013). Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, p.162, Penguin
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