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Meanwhile, in one of many alternate futures...
Trying to connect everyone is the problem of our generation.
— Yael Maguire, Facebook engineering director, CE20140923.
It must have seemed so very simple back then. You could choose when to tune in and when to turn off.
Once companies saw the opportunities to access people everywhere, the push to connect accelerated.
But today, there's no Off switch...
Credit: Luca Galuzzi (cc:by-sa)
Devinder is the first person to climb Everest since it closed to all but Himalayan sherpas—to protect it from erosion.
As he reaches the peak, to document the ecological recovery, his Lens lights up:
Would you like to check in at Everest (summit)?
He silently curses the stratospheric drone that found him.
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