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09/29/2017

Technology as the New Tobacco

A disturbing parallel between social media and cigarettes

Do Facebook’s evasions around the role they played in recent elections remind you of tobacco company lawyers talking about the effects of their products (cue Nathan Thurm reference)? In 50 years, when they make a television (or brain implant) show about the social media era, will viewers scoff at how naïve and self-destructive we were, much the way we looked at all the smoking in Mad Men?

Please click here to read the complete article from The Scholarly Kitchen.

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