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"Social media" calls into question the entire current consumer tech landscape. What's the point of being always connected if the things we have access to or are connected to is garbage?

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To be perfectly blunt though, social media is just a medium, what is garbage is what people are putting it in there. Being always connected just amplifies what was already there. So, I would argue that what social media really calls into question is our very society.

Past Futurists where right, but for the wrong reasons, when they said that in the future the most valuable resources will be our garbage.

Facebook has a market cap that dwarfs what it cost to put the Philae lander on comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

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