laphamsquarterly:

Future fight!

world-shaker:

Orwell vs. Huxley

This is very good.

Re: the Orwell side: it’s time we started thinking of entities like Facebook and Google similarly to how we think about states. Their policies directly impact millions of people and indirectly impact billions. They control the flow of information – perhaps more subtly than Turkey or Iran, but they do.

(via theatlantic)

November 14, 2011 at 11:39am

Source: world-shaker

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