Are friends electric?

'However, when it comes to care, the process can be as important as the outcome, for many values that we hold dear – dignity, for example – are the properties of processes, not their outcomes...

Alas, once we let companies define what counts as “demand” and “need,” these two tend to get defined downwards. Would a desire for human companionship even be recognised as a need or merely written off as a quixotic, romantic quirk of the bygone era?..

And how do you even retire from an economy where financial value is produced simply by interacting with data-intensive technologies?'

-E. Morozov, The Guardian.

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For a minute there, I thought I recognised you.