Richard Powers on BEWILDERMENT
Poured Over
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Social Media
Social media itself gets absorbed into the plot of the story and starts to drive unforeseen consequences. And it's that way in which communication starts to take on a life of it own. It raises all kinds of questions about competition versus co operation, what kinds of intelligence you can have. In ten years, our sense of what it means to be human is completely stood on its head. But it's happening so quickly that we can't even see the changes that it's making to us.
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