No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers a…

Douglas Rushkoff
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No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2013). Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, p.8, Penguin
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