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  • Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human brains connected through the
    internet) happen to motivate infelicitous technological designs.
    For instance, designs that celebrate the noosphere tend to energize the inner troll, or bad actor, within humans.

    Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.45, Vintage
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