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Rotenstreich’s writing didn’t explore AI but rather the television and the role it played in puncturing the membrane between public and private life. His [observations](https://www.pdcnet.org/ipq/content/ipq_1967_0007_0002_0197_0212) of the influence of technology as an agent of political and electoral change look prescient in light of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections and the 2016 Brexit campaign.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
And that targeting process is shockingly good at figuring out who you are and what you are interested in. It’s targeting that makes people think their phones are listening in on their conversations; in reality, it’s more that the data trails we leave behind become road maps to our brains.
How to Fix the Internet | MIT Technology Review
technologyreview.com
The probability is overwhelming that if we had belonged to the generations we deplore, we too would have behaved deplorably. The probability is overwhelming that we belong to a generation that will be found by its successors to have behaved deplorably.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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