In 1999, musician David Bowie sat for an interview with the BBC. Rather than promote his albums, Bowie waxed philosophical about technology’s future. The internet wouldn’t just bring people together, he explained; it would also tear them apart. “Up until at least the mid-1970s, we really felt that we were still living under the guise of a single, absolute, created society—where there were known truths and known lies and there was no kind of duplicity or pluralism about the things that we believed in,” the artist once known as Ziggy Stardust said. “[Then] the singularity disappeared. And that I
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