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💥 Future Shock as Facebook Shock: Is social media driving us crazy?

Also: 5 Quick Questions for … Aria Babu on artificial wombs 🐣

James Pethokoukis
Mar 4, 2022
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💥 Future Shock as Facebook Shock: Is social media driving us crazy?

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“Thermodynamic miracles ... Events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. … To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold ... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.” - Dr. Jonathan Osterman, as conveyed by Alan Moore.

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