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When there’s shelf space in wrong, someone’s gonna fill it

When there’s shelf space in wrong, someone’s gonna fill it

Anti-vaxx stuff on social media is just the latest example. We're being destroyed by our insatiable craving for dopamine and technology’s boundless efforts to deliver it in exchange for profit.

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Sep 07, 2021
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Now that we all know software is eating the world, it’s time we start talking about how software is eating our brains too. Issue after issue plaguing society is caused by our insatiable craving for dopamine and technology’s boundless efforts to deliver it, by any means necessary, in exchange for profit. We’re being slowly devoured by a relentless feedba…

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