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'Google is Like a Gigantic Parasite'
by possibly noteworthy at 11:11 am EST, Feb 9, 2008

Jason Pontin, of MIT Technology Review, on The Great Hollowing Out.

From the archive:

We are willingly part of a world designed for the convenience of what Shakespeare called “the visible God”: money. When I say we have jobs, I mean that we find in them our home, our sense of being grounded in the world, grounded in a vast social and economic order. It is a spectacularly complex, even breathtaking, order, and it has two enormous and related problems. First, it seems to be largely responsible for the destruction of the natural world. Second, it has the strong tendency to reduce the human beings inhabiting it to two functions, working and consuming. It tends to hollow us out.


 
 
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