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• ‟ Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

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• ‟ Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

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• ‟ Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

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• ‟ Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

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• ‟ People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

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• ‟ After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

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• ‟ People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

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• ‟ I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

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• ‟ When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

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