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user-inactivated · 3577 days ago · link · · parent · post: Douglas Haddow: DATACIDE: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It
It is hard not to imagine that the cables dropped and buried over the planet are a nervous system. Is profit, then, merely a functional replacement for adaptability?Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has said the whole process is “like watching the planet develop a nervous system.” And through this system, every human action has become a potential source of profit for our data lords, a signal for them to identify and exploit.