The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened

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But here’s the problem. With the rise of social media and other apps, corporations are now trying to impose standardization on people.

That means you and me.

Everything we do, from dating via apps to getting a meal from DoorDash to communicating with friends on Facebook, must be handled in a uniform, standardized way. That’s because—yes, you guessed it—it’s more profitable that way.

This is how people get flattened.

> This chemoreceptor patent-proposal is kicking my ass. Hundley won't let me down until it's done. Hardly worth filing for, in my opinion. Who wants to smell the difference between xenon and radon?

> This place... They just want to own anything genetic, any new sequence. People are feedstock, as far as management cares. My job is to find ways to add value.

> The whole society is built of the factory model, schools, business, media... move person X through process Y, add capability Z... Why not clinics?

> Guess I better get back to work. I'm so sick of staring at a computer screen.

-- Conversation lines from fictional data entry clerk Gary Bunkett, Deus Ex (2000)

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