While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy the…

Douglas Rushkoff
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While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other. ✨ Douglas Rushkoff (2013). Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, p.126, Penguin
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