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How corporations got all your data

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Fundamental Shift in the Social Sciences

This instinct to reduce the natural world to a predictable, controllable machine spills into what we would now call the social sciences. That is really the fundamental shift we're talking about here, right? Absolutely. And it was understood as incredibly dangerous by those who wanted to protect more traditional ways of understanding life.

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