In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrati…

Douglas Rushkoff
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In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2013). Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, p.57, Penguin
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