“A hundred years ago,” Flora recited, “computers were in their infancy, but the elites of the time knew their potential. They sold it as a way of freeing humanity, but it was about doing the opposite. They flooded Silicon Valley with money until a computer was in every pocket. Then they funded the invention of social media to track everyone, to know what they liked and believed. Then they corrupted those beliefs, played them back to people in their own echo chambers. And slowly, humanity became polarized. It was us and them, and neither side was able to even listen to the other without
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Sounds like life now...
