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The Faustian bargain of the digital age—free or cheap digital conveniences in exchange for our data—was only ever explained to us after it was already a done deal. And it represents an enormous and radical shift not only in how we live but also, far more importantly, in what our lives are for. We are all mine sites now, data mine sites, and despite the intimacy and import of what is being mined, the mining process remains utterly obscure and the mine operators wholly unaccountable.
The protocolic and programmatic truth which now expresses itself everywhere in culture, the economy, and politics is that *only in a society that is so densely and exhaustively networked can lives be so multiply and intensely disconnected from one another and alone*.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
Homo sapiens are about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
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