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Today I'm starting on Eyes Wide Open by noreenahertz and I've pre-ordered her book The Lonely Century.
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…in reply to @axbom
"If we do not want to be victims of a future that others dictate to us, we need to get better at making choices with our eyes wide open, our brains switched on."
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…in reply to @axbom
"In 1984, just as email was beginning to enter the main- ream, Jacob Palme, a computer scientist from the QZ Computer Centre at the University of Stockholm [...], warned that 'electronic mail system, if used by many people, causes severe information overload problems'."
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…in reply to @axbom
"Indeed, so aware is the US Army of the medium's powers of evasion that it intentionally deploys PowerPoint when briefing the media, a tactic known as 'hypnotising chickens!"