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Patrick Tucker
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The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
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2014
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“moving score, in the form of a continuously updating education profile, is probably a better indication of your potential than a static one that reflects who you were or what you could do when you were sixteen, or where you completed four years of schooling when you were in your late teens and early twenties.”
― The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
― The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
“But as Ramakrishnan admits, Facebook probably is not where the next major national security threat is going to pop up.”
― The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
― The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
“Walmart (publicly) divides its shoppers into three groups: “brand aspirationals,” people without much money who don’t want to look cheap and so buy brand-name items at discount prices to cover that up; “price-sensitive affluents,” meaning cheap rich people; and “value-price shoppers,” regular cheap people.”
― The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
― The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the Hollywood slaughter mill, churning out screenplays that would go unread on dusty metal shelves...
Except for Patrick, who somehow escaped seemingly unscathed, wiser and a far better writer than all of us bright young things put together.