“Today, the #hippies have aged out of the computer industry entirely, the #yuppies are retired, and high-tech entrepreneurs like #Musk are leaving #California for #Texas. The world of digital technology has changed too. In the 1990s, everyone from modem makers to software developers was focused on building the global network. Connection was the order of the day. Today, the World Wide Web is in place, our computers are in our pockets, and the smart money bets on turning the data we generate into patterns that can be sold to the highest bidder. The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of #capitalism, #extraction.”

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