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VR pioneer says FB and Google need to stop being free for everyone.
"We made a very particular mistake in the 90s when early digital culture had this lefty, socialist mission, which meant that everything on the internet must be available for free," he added.

That decision led directly to the advertising model that allows Google and Facebook to flourish, he explained.

"In the beginning it was cute but as computers became more efficient and algorithms got better, it can no longer be called advertising any more - it has turned into behaviour modification."
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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Not really related, but every time I hear that phrase "behavior modification" this comes to mind

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Although, really, rel-istening to the lyrics, it is related.
It's not me, it's someone else.
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