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It's a series of very simple gimmicks, performed very quickly and smoothly. Computers are very quick and very smooth. The quickness of the hand deceives the eye: do crude tricks with superhuman speed and they'll seem sophisticated.
Pluralistic: Meatspace Twiddling
Cory Doctorow
As a capitalist firm, Google wants to maximize that surplus, expanding in depth—drilling ever deeper into our data souls and households—but also in breadth, by offering new services in new domains and diversifying its “surveillance assets.”
Capitalism’s New Clothes
The Baffler
If technology is an extension of humans, it is not an extension of our genes but of our minds. Technology is therefore the extended body for ideas.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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