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“the laws of nature are rigged in favor of life.” In this view, “life emerges from a soup in the same dependable way that a crystal emerges from a saturated solution,”
― What Technology Wants
― What Technology Wants
“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”
― What Technology Wants
― What Technology Wants
“What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?
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The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection?
In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.”
― Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
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The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection?
In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.”
― Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Christopher’s 2025 Year in Books
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