We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better
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#2Perfect. A much friendlier, much more social, much more corporate 1984.
(Another heartbreaking work of staggering genius?)
edit: Yes, it's pretty transparently a reference to Google. Zings sound more like tweets, though. And monitoring everything has turned out to be primarily the NSA's job, but I guess he finished the book before that scandal came to real light.
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#3Perfect. A much friendlier, much more social, much more corporate 1984. (Another heartbreaking work of staggering genius?) edit: Yes, it's pretty transparently a reference to Google. Zings sound more like tweets, though. And monitoring everything has turned out to be primarily the NSA's job, but I guess he finished the book before that scandal came to real light.
It seems to be a subtle critique of Google. I read it as Circle = Google, ad business where Mae works = AdWords, tablets = Android, zings = tweets / Google+ shares, new camera = Google Glass.
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#4The editors note
http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/28/this-sunday-who...
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#5"All that happens must be known."
Wow. So much insidiousness packed into six little words.
They conveniently forget to mention by whom it should be known.
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#6Perfect. A much friendlier, much more social, much more corporate 1984. (Another heartbreaking work of staggering genius?) edit: Yes, it's pretty transparently a reference to Google. Zings sound more like tweets, though. And monitoring everything has turned out to be primarily the NSA's job, but I guess he finished the book before that scandal came to real light.
It seems to be a subtle critique of Google. I read it as Circle = Google, ad business where Mae works = AdWords, tablets = Android, zings = tweets / Google+ shares, new camera = Google Glass.
Or maybe a critique of Google + FB + TW, if not of the pervasive "ideology" that permeates the whole social media/cloud everywhere discourse.
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#7Perfect. A much friendlier, much more social, much more corporate 1984. (Another heartbreaking work of staggering genius?) edit: Yes, it's pretty transparently a reference to Google. Zings sound more like tweets, though. And monitoring everything has turned out to be primarily the NSA's job, but I guess he finished the book before that scandal came to real light.
Odd, until I read that, I thought it refers to Apple. The culture of neatness, perfectionism, gadget obsession, even the motto stones that reek APPL slogans.
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#8If this story has gotten you down, wondering if we've created an inescapable dystopia, then this page may brighten your spirits --- an existence proof of another option --- the one that's worked well for Donald Knuth (whose contributions to the tech industry are indisputable):
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#9Perfect. A much friendlier, much more social, much more corporate 1984. (Another heartbreaking work of staggering genius?) edit: Yes, it's pretty transparently a reference to Google. Zings sound more like tweets, though. And monitoring everything has turned out to be primarily the NSA's job, but I guess he finished the book before that scandal came to real light.
I wouldn't say genius - I found the moral to be about as unsubtle as a jackhammer, and the writing style irritating.
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#10"Each generation is best defined by its fears"*
*butchered, don't know the original author of the quote I was trying to find and can't find it via google, but I know it's there somewhere