"It seems like Facebook to me and the Google's are just a natural, you know, a natural conclusion to that this fucked up weird experiment we got going on," he says. "I go back and forth between how much Facebook is to actually blame." He also questions George Bush's advice after 9/11: 'The way to be patriotic is to buy stuff' The author doesn't believe new products are making our lives better but thinks there could be a lesson in their existence.

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