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It speaks to Facebook's hubris that they probably did not see this coming. Sure, the RussiaGate storyline required at least a soupçon of evil Russian Facebook trolls -- Putinist villains who allegedly purchased less than $100k worth of ads, most of which went up after the election and some of which were for puppies -- but Facebook was just as much a victim in all of that as the rest of us... right? For years Facebook has been the undisputed champion of social media. According

During her lifetime, the writer Ayn Rand was a staunch defender of both individualism and technology. Under her rational egoist philosophy, which she dubbed "Objectivism," reality must ultimately be understood via the individual mind. As such, in books like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Rand argued that man should shape reality based on his own rational self-interest. In today's world, some might see individualism and technology as being necessarily opposed. Whether it

Over recent years, Americans have become increasingly aware of how the federal government, local agencies and even private corporations are spying on their daily behaviors. With laws like the PATRIOT Act opening the door for Orwellian programs like PRISM, Vault 7, aircraft surveillance and the Stingray, privacy in the 21st Century seems all but dead. It is sometimes said that the only privacy we have left is in our own heads. But in the not-too-distant future, that might no l