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We have domesticated our humanity as much as we have domesticated our horses. Our human nature itself is a malleable crop that we planted 50,000 years ago and continue to garden even today.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
Reading becomes a process of elimination rather than deep engagement. Life becomes about knowing how not to know what one doesn’t have to know.
Program or Be Programmed
Douglas Rushkoff
A handful of entrepreneurs and developers may get very rich off their ideas, but for the most part it’s the same institutional investors and family funds profiting now off Google or Facebook who once profited off Intel and IBM or, before that, GE and AT&T. The media stories about the turnover of tech moguls hides the fact that the same invisible population of rich people behind them are simply getting richer.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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